A CERTAIN MEDICINAL COMPOUND, CALLED THE REVEREND MR. BARCLAY'S ANTIBILIOUS DEOBSTRUENT PILLS, WHICH, IN THEIR USE, HAD PROVED FAR SUPERIOR TO ANY MEDICINE YET DISCOVERED FOR THE SAFE AND EFFECTUAL EXPULSION OF THE BILE AND BILIOUS OBSTRUCTIONS, SO FATAL IN THEIR EFFECT TO MANKIND IN GENERAL
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM, THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BARCLAY, of Manchester Buildings, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, in. the
City of Westminster, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the
said United Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of July,
in the forty-second year of His reign, after reciting or mentioning, amongst other
things, that I had, by my Petition, humbly represented to His Majesty that I had,
after much study, labour, and experience, found out, invented, and brought to
perfection "A CERTAIN MEDICINAL COMPOUND, CALLED THE REVEREND MR. BARCLAY'S
ANTIBILIOUS DEOBSTRUENT PILLS, WHICH, IN THEIR USE, HAD PROVED FAR SUPERIOR
TO ANY MEDICINE YET DISCOVERED FOR THE SAFE AND EFFECTUAL EXPULSION OF THE
BILE AND BILIOUS OBSTRUCTIONS, SO FATAL IN THEIR EFFECT TO MANKIND IN
GENERAL," did give and grant unto me, the said William Barclay, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Barclay, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my said Invention within that part of the said United Kingdom called
England, His Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-

page_text: Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the
said William Barclay, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instru-
ment 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 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 cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Barclay, do, by these Presents under my hand and seal, particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be prepared (that is to say):-
Take of the mass of the simple colocynth pills two drams, of resin of jalap
one dram, of soap of almonds one dram and a half, of extract of guaicum wood
three drams, of tartar emetic eight grains, of the essential oil of juniper berries
four drops, of the essential oil of carraway seeds four drops, and of the essen-
tial oil of rosemary buds or flowers four drops. Mix them well together, with
'as much syrup of buckthorn berries as will make a mass for pills, and then
divide the same into sixty-four equal parts, and make each part into a pill.
The dose is from two to four of the pills, or more of them, taken at night or in
the morning, as occasion or necessity may require.
The above ingredients will form my pill, which are known by the name of
"The Reverend Mr. Barclay's Antibilious Deobstruent Pills."
In witness whereof, I, the said William Barclay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, in the forty-second
year of the reign of His present Majesty, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirteenth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Barclay 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 Thirteenth day of August in the year shore writton
Inrolled the same Thirteenth day of August, in the year shore writton.