A NEW CHEMICAL MEDICINE, WHICH I CALL SPIRITUS ŒETHEREUS ANODYNUS, OR ANODYNE ETHEREAL SPIRIT
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TICKELL, of the Parish of Walcot, in the City of Bath, Apothecary, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Fifth day of August, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said William Tickell, His especial licence that I, the said
William Tickell, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW CHEMICAL MEDICINE,
WHICH I CALL SPIRITUS ŒETHEREUS ANODYNUS, OR ANODYNE ETHEREAL SPIRIT;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said William Tickell, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be pre-
pared, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Tickell, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say):-
:-
Take of highly rectified spirit of wine six quarts, of concentrated oil of
vitriol ten pounds; pour the spirit of wine into a receiver, to which the oil
of vitriol is to be added gradually, and when cold the mixture is to be put
into a bottle with a glass stopple, in which it is to remain ten days or a
fortnight. Take three quarts of this mixture and put it into a large retort,
lute on
a capacious receiver, distil with a moderate fire, but sufficient to
keep the mixture in a boiling state for the space of twelve hours; a pin
should be passed through the luting occasionally to discharge over-rarified
air. The following morning three quarts more of the same mixture are to
be added to what remains in the retort; the receiver is again to be carefully
luted on, and the distillation again continued for the space of twelve hours.
On the third morning add to the mixture in the retort twelve ounces of
highly rectified spirit of wine, in which half an ounce of the genuine oil of
juniper or of camphire has been previously dissolved; lute the receiver, and
again continue the distillation for twelve hours. On the fourth morning the
distillation is again to be commenced and continued for the same space of
time, but the fire is to be regulated with more caution, otherwise a bursting
of the glass or an ebullition will frustrate the operation. The spirit which is
the produce of these several distillations is now to be poured into a seperating
funnel, and the crude phlegm seperated from it, when it is to be edulcorated
by the repeated effusion of cold spring water. The receiver is now to be
again luted on, and the distillation continued with a moderate fire for the
space of twenty-four hours, by which final operation the oleum polychrestum
verum will be obtained, which is likewise to be seperated from its acid;
half an ounce of this pure oil is to be added to thirty-one ounces and half of
the pure spirit, and thus is prepared the genuine anodyne ethereal spirit,
which may either remain in its limpid state, or be coloured by any of the
resinous woods, as may best please the operator.
In witness whereof, I, the said Will. Tickell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August. 1786.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1786, the aforesaid William Tickell came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
5 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One