NEW-INVENTED RESTORATIVE MEDICINE, CALLED ESSENCE OF FLOWERS OF BENZOIN, OR PULMONIC DROPS,
Year: 1765

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WILLIAMS, of the Parish of Saint James, within the Liberty of Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex, Apothecary, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of
December last, grant unto me, the said Thomas Williams, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, IIis especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend my "NEW-INVENTED RESTORATIVE
MEDICINE, CALLED ESSENCE OF FLOWERS OF BENZOIN, OR PULMONIC DROPS," within
that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in the Plantations abroad, during the term
of fourteen years from the date thereof, according to the Statute in such case
made and provided, to the end that I, the said Thomas Williams, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, might have and enjoy the full benefit, sole use
and exercise, of the said Invention during the said term, in manner therein
particularly mentioned, subject to a proviso therein contained for making
the said Letters Patent void, if I, the said Thomas Williams, did not par-
ticularly 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 Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months from the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
will (amongst other things) more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Williams, in obedience to the
said Letters Patent, have particularly described and ascertained, and by these

page_text: Presents do particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner the same is to be prepared, which is in the words and terms
following (that is to say):-
Take a quantity of the flowers fresh prepared, of a white colour and fragrant
flavour, by a chymical process, from the best East India gum benzoin; digest
them, with the finest saffron and the purest parts of the best American pines,
in a spirituous menstruum for some time with a proper degree of heat; and,
lastly, purify, secundum artem, for use. The above is a just account of the
preparation of the said medicine, which has been for some time and is now
administred by me, in private practice as well as in publick, for diseases of the
lungs, such as coughs, asthmas, and consumptions, or decays of the body,
with amazing success, it being far superior in virtue, richness, and elegance,
to any medicine of the kind before published by any other person or persons
whatsoever, as experience has confirmed; and I do hereby further declare that
the foregoing assertions are strictly true.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Williams, have to these Presents
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of March, in the sixth
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, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-six.
THOMAS WILLIAMS. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of us,
JN°. BROOMHEAD.
HENRY FREEMAN.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Seventeenth day of March, in
the said sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the aforesaid Thomas Williams came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped accord-
ing to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Seventeenth day of March, in the sixth year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Third, 1766.