AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION FOR THE CURE OF THE HOOPING COUGH, CHIN COUGH, FIXED COUGHS, AND ALL OTHER COMPLAINTS, DISORDERS, AFFECTIONS, OR DISEASES OF A SIMILAR NATURE
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY OR SHALL COME, I,
JAMES ROCHE, of King Street, Holborn, in the Parish of Saint George,
Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of May,
in the forty-third year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the
said James Roche, my executors, administrators, and assigns, special licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, during the term of years therein
expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention, being "AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION FOR
THE CURE OF THE HOOPING COUGH, CHIN COUGH, FIXED COUGHS, AND ALL OTHER
COMPLAINTS, DISORDERS, AFFECTIONS, OR DISEASES OF A SIMILAR NATURE;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
James Roche, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after

page_text: the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Roche, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained as
follows, that is to say:-
Take of oil of elder one gallon, of red rose leaves two ounces, of camomile
flowers two ounces, of oil of carraways three ounces, of oil of rosemary half an
ounce, of powder of cochineal six grains, and of alkunet root two ounces;
which several articles or ingredients must be put in an carthen or other vessel,
and simmered over a slow fire for the space or time of twenty-four hours, and
then pressed and strained through a sieve of fine hair or linen, and the liquid
produced therefrom will be fit for use. The quantity to be used is to be pro-
portioned to the age of the patient in the following manner; that is to say, the
quantity necessary for a child under six months old is a third of a small tea-
spoon full; the quantity necessary for a child above six months, and under
twelve months, is one half of a small tea-spoon full; the quantity necessary
for a child between twelve months and two years old, a small tea-spoon full;
the quantity necessary for a child above two years, a small tea-spoon full and
an half; and the quantity necessary for an adult is two ten-spoons full. The
mode of application is to pour, by drops or degrees, the quantity before
particularly specified, according to the age of the patient, into the palm of
the hand, and to rub the pit of the stomach therewith before the fire,
the last thing previous to going to bed, for the space of ten minutes or a
quarter of an hour, or until such quantity is thereby become dried in or
absorbed, when the stomach must be immediately covered with a piece of
fine flannel, to be worn all night, and exchanged for another piece to be worn
by day.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-second day of
June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid James Roche came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-second day of June, in the year above written.