A NEW CHIMICAL PREPARATION WHICH I CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE FEMALE STRENGHENING ELIXIR, WHICH IS EXTRACTED FROM THE MOST POWERFULL PARTS OF THE MATERIA MEDICA, AND IS A MOST EXCEL- LENT, AND ALMOST INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR THE FLUOR ALBUS IN WOMEN, AND IN MEN AN EXCELLENT RESTORATIVE AND A MOST EFFICACIOUS REMEDY IN ALL SEMINAL WEAKNESSES AND DEBILITY OF THE GENITAL PARTS, FROM WHATSOEVER CAUSES ARISING; THAT, IN CONSTITUTIONS WORN DOWN WITH LONG AND TEDIOUS ILLNESS, IT WILL AFFORD GREAT RELIEF, BY RESTORING THE LOST SPRING OF THE SOLIDS, AND THAT IT RAISES THE SPIRITS, REMOVES HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS, AND GIVES NEW LIFE AND VIGOUE TO HIS WHOLE BODY
Year: 1751

page_text: FRAUNCES' SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
FRAUNCES, of Daventry, in the County of Northampton, Apothecary, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Joseph Fraunces, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, that, by.
long study, great application, and at a considerable expence, I had invented,
compleated, and brought to perfection "A NEW CHIMICAL PREPARATION WHICH
I CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE FEMALE STRENGHENING ELIXIR, WHICH IS EXTRACTED
FROM THE MOST POWERFULL PARTS OF THE MATERIA MEDICA, AND IS A MOST EXCEL-
LENT, AND ALMOST INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR THE FLUOR ALBUS IN WOMEN, AND IN
MEN AN EXCELLENT RESTORATIVE AND A MOST EFFICACIOUS REMEDY IN ALL SEMINAL
WEAKNESSES AND DEBILITY OF THE GENITAL PARTS, FROM WHATSOEVER CAUSES
ARISING; THAT, IN CONSTITUTIONS WORN DOWN WITH LONG AND TEDIOUS ILLNESS, IT
WILL AFFORD GREAT RELIEF, BY RESTORING THE LOST SPRING OF THE SOLIDS, AND
THAT IT RAISES THE SPIRITS, REMOVES HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS, AND GIVES NEW LIFE
AND VIGOUE TO HIS WHOLE BODY;" that, in regard to my great industry and
expence in inventing and bringing to perfection the said medicine, and the
advantage that will accrue from it to the publick, His said Majesty, of His
especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did, by. His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-seventh day of March, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Frannces, my executors, administrators,
and assignes, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Joseph Frances, my executors, administrators, and assignes, by
myself and themselves, or by our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, o
such others as I, the said Joseph Fraunces, my executors, administrators,
or assignes, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time

page_text: and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, my
exccutors, administrators, and assignes, should seem meet, to have, hold, exer-
cise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages unto me,
the said Joseph Fraunces, my exors, administrators, and assignes, from the
date of the said Letters Patent, for and during and unto the full end and torm
of fourteen years, subject to a proviso that if I, the said Joseph Fraunces, did not
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 the High Court of Chancery
within three kalendar months next after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the same Letters Patent, and everything therein contained, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent
(relation being thereunto had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Joseph Fraunces, in pursuance of the
said proviso, do hereby describe the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (to wit) :-
Take of the lapis smaragd, topaz hyacinth, sardin, sapphir, of each half a
pound; calcine them, and put them into a gallon of spirit of wine, with six
ounces of calx of antimony, and nine ounces of crocus martis astringens; set
them in a dunghill for the space of two months; strain and filter; then add
balsam capivy, tolu, male, franckincense, of each four ounces; balm of Gilead,
three ounces; isinglass, one pound; shavings of hartshorne and of ivory, of
each two pounds; white nettle flowers, seven handfull; roots of bistort and
tormentil, of each one pound; the best rhubarb, highly torrifyed, four ounces.
Distill and cohobate six times. Then add salt of vipers, half an ounce; cam-
phire, well purified by dissolving in spirit of wine, and distilling in a glass
cucurbit, three ounces. Digest these in a sand heat a week, filter, and it is
done.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Fraunces, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the twenty-
fifth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-one.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
JOS. FRAUNCES. (L.s.) 85
FRAN. BEYNON.
JOHN MOORE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Twenty-fourth day of
June, the said Joseph Fraunces 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 stamped according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of
the reign of the Inte King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the twenty-fourth year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second.