A CERTAIN MEDICINE CALLED OLEUM ANODINUM, OR BRITISH BALSAM OF HEALTH, FOR THE CURE OF GOUTY NODES, AND TUMOUS, RHEUMATICK AND SCIATICK PAINS, FISTULAS AND ULCERS, THE EVIL AND LEPROSY, BRUISES AND SPRAINS, THE DROPSY, STONE, AND GRAVEL, STERILITY AND IMPOTENCY, CONSUMPTIONS AND OTHER DISORDERS OF THE BREAST AND Luses
Year: 1752

page_text: COLLETT & JACKSON'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
JACKSON, of the City of London, Chymist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of July, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto Joseph Collett, Practitioner in Physick, and to me, the said
James Jackson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said Joseph Collett and
James Jackson, our executors, administrators, & assigns, and every of us, by
himself and ourselves, should, during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend our new Invention of "A CERTAIN MEDICINE
CALLED OLEUM ANODINUM, OR BRITISH BALSAM OF HEALTH, FOR THE CURE OF
GOUTY NODES, AND TUMOUS, RHEUMATICK AND SCIATICK PAINS, FISTULAS AND
ULCERS, THE EVIL AND LEPROSY, BRUISES AND SPRAINS, THE DROPSY, STONE,
AND GRAVEL, STERILITY AND IMPOTENCY, CONSUMPTIONS AND OTHER DISORDERS OF
THE BREAST AND Luses," within England and Wales and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe requiring
us, the said Joseph Collett and James Jackson, or either of us, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hand and seal, or the hand and seal of one of us,
to cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be prepared, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next after the date of the said

page_text: recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Jackson, do hereby declare that the said Oleum Anodinum, or British
Balsam of Health, is extracted from a hard substance, of which there are
several sorts of equal virtue and efficacy, some of which, to the sight, are not
much unlike to coarse or rough succini, and is to be had near to river sides
in many parts of this Kingdom, particularly in Warwickshire, Staffordshire,
Berkshire, and some other places near London, and which affords a light and
pure oil, with a considerable quantity of a more thick and heavy substance that
will sink in water, which by art is reduced to a most pure and perfect gum,
both which are extracted, rectified, and united in the manner following (that
is to say): The said hard substance is to be beat or pounded very small,
and then mixt with a sufficient quantity of red sand, and put into an iron
furnace with a wide copper head, to which must be fixed a large and long
glass pipe, to the end of which a large receiver must be luted; then work it
with a slow fire till the drops begin to come large, and to sink to the bottom;
then the receiver must be taken off, and a clean glazed deep carthen vessel put
in its place; and then the fire must be raised and kept up so long as any
drops shall fall into the earthen vessel; then it must be put into a sand heat &
boiled & scum'd, so long as any scum riscs, and till it comes transparent to the
eye. The oyl which comes first over must be rectified in a glass retort so often
as till it comes of a fine light colour, and the empyreuma is mostly gone. Thẹn
these two substances are to be mixed together in a glass vessel, and digested
till they are intirely united into one substance, and that of the consistence of a
balsam. Thus is the operation compleated, and is to be taken by children from
five to thirty drops upon sugar, and dissolved in water, tea, &c., and to grown
persons from thirty to one hundred and forty drops; and for outward uses it is
to be either bathed on, or a clean linnen cloth dipped in the balsam and applied
to the part.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Jackson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the twenty-sixth year
of the reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and fifty-two.
Scaled and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
HEN. ROOKE.
WATK. LEWIS.
JAMES JACKSON. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eighteenth day of October
aforesaid, the said James Jackson came before our Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above said. And also the said Writing was
stampt according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of October, in the twenty-sixth year of the
reign of His said Majesty King George the Second.