A SUBSTITUTE, THE PRODUCE OF THIS COUNTRY, FOR PERUVIAN BARK
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FERDINAND
SMYTH STUART, of Billericay, in the County of Essex, Esquire, late of
Bloomsbury Square, London, Doctor of Physic, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of August, in the forty-ninth year of Ilis reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my discovery or Invention of "A
SUBSTITUTE, THE PRODUCE OF THIS COUNTRY, FOR PERUVIAN BARK;" in which Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Ferdinand Smyth
Stuart, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description or explanation
or communication of the said discovery or Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be used, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, do hereby declare that the said discovery or Invention
may be comprehended, explained, and expressed under the six following
head, viz:-

page_text: 1st, the leaves of the oak tree dryed in the shade; 2nd, the bark of the
lesser branches of the oak tree dryed in the shade; and 3d, the inner bark of
the oak tree in general reduced to a fine powder, and to be administered
exactly in the manner and proportions as peruvian bark has been given; 4th,
as a more powerful substitute, a decoction of the green leaves of the oak or of
the leaves dryed, as above mentioned in No. 1, may be given alone; and to add
too and promote its powers and efficacy, the powder of the said bark, especially
that of the lesser branches, as expressed in No. 2, may be administered in the
same as peruvian bark has been usually given in port wine, only in double
the quantity of the decoction; 5th, an extract or decoction of the bark, as
mentioned in No. 2 and in No. 3, may also be administered with the same
salutary effects when required in these forms in every case wherein peruvian
bark has been successfully applyed; and 6th, with the very superior advantage
over peruvian bark, that the said decoction is a certain remedy and curo for
the scurvy in almost every stage of that discase.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.
FERDINAND SMYTH STUART. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirty-first day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Ferdinand Smyth Stuart 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 Statuto in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Thirty-first day of August, in the year above written.