ART OF MAKING HIS MEDECINAL AND COMPOUND POWDERS FOR THE ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF OR YOUNG CHILDREN AFFLICTED WITH GRIPES AND CONVULSIONS
Year: 1776

page_text: WAKEFIELD'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ROBERT
WAKEFIELD, late of the Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden, but now of
Brownlow Street, in the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn, both in the County
of Middlesex, Surgeon, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-second day of
February last, gave and granted unto the said Robert Wakefield, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, for the said Robert Wakefield, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or by his
or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said
Robert Wakefield, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times hereafter,
to make, use, exercise, and vend his new-invented "ART OF MAKING HIS
MEDECINAL AND COMPOUND POWDERS FOR THE ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF OR YOUNG
CHILDREN AFFLICTED WITH GRIPES AND CONVULSIONS," to have and to hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, power, privilege, and advantage to the
said Robert Wakefield, his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and imme-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Robert Wakefield, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the 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 the High Court of Chancery within
four kalendar months 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 be utterly void.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Wakefield, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that the
nature of my said Invention of making my Medecinal and Compound Powders
for the Assistance and Relief of Young Children Afflicted with Gripes and
Convulsions, and the manner in which the same is prepared and administered,
is in the form following, that is to say :-
R. Sal polychreshun Ib. j. Prepared according to the London Dispensatory.
Pulvis epilepticus lb. j.J
Pulvis radix contrayerve lb. j. Made intirely from the contrayeve root,
finely powdered and sifted.
Pulvis cinnamoni lb. j. Made only of the purest cinnamon, finely pow-
dered and sifted.
Pulvis sacchari purgatissimi lb. j.
The usual dose whereof is about ten grains, more or less, according to the
strength of the child.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Eighteenth day of June, in the sixteenth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thou-'
sand seven hundred and seventy-six.