ANTI-ARTHRITICK WINE AND POWDER FOR THE CURE OF THE GOUT
Year: 1758

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
COLLETT, of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the County of Middle-
sex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Second did
give and grant unto me, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, His
Royall Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of
August, in the thirty-second year of His reign, impowering me, during the
term of years therein expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend my new
Invention of "ANTI-ARTHRITICK WINE AND POWDER FOR THE CURE OF THE GOUT"
within England and Wales and Town of Barwick-upon-Tweed; in which
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph
Collett, by some instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calender months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Collett, do hereby declare that the said anti-arthritick wine and
powder is to be made and prepared in the following manner (that is to
say):-
First, put seven gallons of the best Madeira wine and five gallons of
genuine French brandy together into a vessell; the put into it of the roots
of gentian, snake root, and galangal, of each two pounds; of the tops of

page_text: centory, burdock seed, and Russia rhubarb, of cach two pounds and an half;
of the best saffron, four pounds; of the volatile salt of millepedes, twelve
ounces; digest together twenty-one days without heat, and then strain it off
for use. To make the powder, take of salt of tartar and saltpetre, of each
five ounces; of regulus of antimony, one ounce; of spirit of vitriol, two ounces;
rub it all together in a mortar, and then put it into an iron crucible, and
calcine it till the red fumes disappear; the take it of the fire and reduce it to
a fine powder, and so keep it for use. The powder is to be taken fifty grains
for a dose, mixed with a glass of warm white wine at night going to bed, and
repeated every eight days as long as there shall be occasion. The wine is
to be taken a gill at a time, at night, going to bed, and in the morning
fasting, and may be repeated with discretion till the cure is performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Collett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the thirty-second year
of the reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight.
JOSEPH
(L.S.)
LETT.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
I. PEPPER.
THо. JOHNS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of December, in the
Thirty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
the said Joseph Collett came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according
to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William
and Queen Mary, and so forth.