A MEDICINE, CALLED THE ANTIPERTUSSIS, WHICH IS A MOST INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THAT DREADFUL DISORDER THE HOOPING COUGH AND ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACK AND LUNGS, AS WELL AS BEING THE BEST ANTISCORBUTIC YET DISCOVERED
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMEN
MARTIN, Senior, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Benjami Martin, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I
had, after much study and a considerable expence, found ont and invented "A
MEDICINE, CALLED THE ANTIPERTUSSIS, WHICH IS A MOST INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THAT
DREADFUL DISORDER THE HOOPING COUGH AND ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACK AND
LUNGS, AS WELL AS BEING THE BEST ANTISCORBUTIC YET DISCOVERED;" wherefore I
prayed His said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased to grant unto
me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for
the sole making and vending of the said medicine within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for
the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day of March, in the twenty-fourth
year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto me, the said Benjamin Martin, my executors, adñors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Benjamin Martin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of

page_text: them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Benjamin Martin, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Benjamin Martin, my executors,
admors, and assigns, or any of us, should, in or discretion seem meet, and that
I, the said Benjamin Martin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Inven-
tion for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Benjamin Martin, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso, that if the said Benjamin Martin should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing under. .my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties.
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said in part recited Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Martin, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars
herein-after expressed, and to be prepared in manner following; viz*:-
To every quart of spring water, beer measure, put one ounce and a half of
the best white vitriol, and let it stand in an earthen vessel twenty days. Stir
it every day till within two or three days of the time you want to use it; then
take one pound of ground Brazil wood, one pound of roach allum, one dram of
cochineal, put them all together in an earthen pipkin, with two quarts of
spring water; set it on a gentle fire, keeping it stirring untill half the liquor is
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page_text: wasted; then strain it through a flannell bag, and to every quart of the vitriol
water add half a pint of this mixture.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Martin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the twenty-
fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth.