NEW-INVENTED MEDICAL CURE FOR ALMOST ALL SCORBUTICK DISORDERS, AND THEIR NATURAL ERUPTIVE CONSEQUENCES, BUT MORE PARTICULARLY FOR ULCERATED AND OTHER SORE LEGS, SO FREQUENTLY COMPLAINED OP IN THIS KINGDOM, ARISING FROM THE BEFORE-MENTIONED PRIMARY CAUSES; WHICH SAID MEDICAL PROCESS CONSISTS IN GIVING, BY REGULAR TURNS, AN ELECTUARY, MIXTURE, AND DROPS INTERNALLY, AND BY THE APPLICATION OF A DIGESTIVE LINIMENT AND CERATE EXTERNALLY
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SAMUEL CHASE, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twelfth day of February, in the twelfth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves; or by mine and their
deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Chase, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my "NEW-INVENTED MEDICAL CURE FOR ALMOST ALL SCORBUTICK DISORDERS,
AND THEIR NATURAL ERUPTIVE CONSEQUENCES, BUT MORE PARTICULARLY FOR ULCERATED
AND OTHER SORE LEGS, SO FREQUENTLY COMPLAINED OP IN THIS KINGDOM, ARISING
FROM THE BEFORE-MENTIONED PRIMARY CAUSES; WHICH SAID MEDICAL PROCESS
CONSISTS IN GIVING, BY REGULAR TURNS, AN ELECTUARY, MIXTURE, AND DROPS
INTERNALLY, AND BY THE APPLICATION OF A DIGESTIVE LINIMENT AND CERATE
EXTERNALLY," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to ine, the said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators,

page_text: and assigns, or any of them;lshould in their discretions seem meet; and that
I, the said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising, by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the
said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next
and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said recited Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if I, the said Samuel Chase, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my 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 His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date thereof, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Chase, do hereby declare: my
said
Invention, and declare that the same is to be prepared in manner following,
that is to say:
:
The Antiscorbutic Electuary.-Take of cinnabar of antimony one ounce
and half, purified salt of nitre two ounces and half, powder of jallap two ounces,
compound powder of cuckow-pint four ounces, Æthiop's mineral six ounces,
cremor tarter one pound, linitive electuary twenty ounces, simple syrup as
much as is sufficient to make it into an electuary. The quantity of a nutmeg
for a grown person to be taken every night and morning, drinking after it
two spoonfuls of the following mixture:-
The Antiscorbutic Mixture.-Take of infusion of senna four, pounds and
half, peppermint water eighteen ounces, common manna nine ounces, com-
pound spirit of lavender one ounce and half. Mix all together. This mixture
to be taken as directed with the above electuary.
The Antiscorbutic Drops.-Take of antimonial wine, dulcified spirit of nitre,
each one ounce. Forty drops to be taken every morning at eleven o'clock in
a teacupfull of new milk.
The Cerate. Take of hogg's lard one pound, olive oyl one pound, yellow

page_text: wax three ounces, prepared lapis calaminaris four ounces, red lead three
ounces. Mix them for cerate.
The Digestive. Take of white wax two drachms, sperm ceti three drachms,
olive oyl four ounces, facticious cinnabar, powder of red precipitate, each three
drachms. Mix for digestive.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Chase, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixth day of June, in the twelfth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-two.