A MEDICINE, WHICH I CALLED THE CORDIAL MIXTURE FOR WOMEN IN LABOUR, WHICH LONG EXPERIENCE HAD CON- FIRMED TO ME MIGHT BE DEPENDED ON FOR PROCURING THE SPEEDY RELIEF REQUIRED AT THAT CRITICAL PERIOD, AND THAT I MADE NO DOUBT BUT (BY THE DIVINE PERMISSION) THE SAID MEDICINE WOULD PROVE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE SAVING MANY LIVES, IP THE VIRTUES AND EFFICACYS OF IT WERE GENERALLY KNOWN
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WRIGHT, of Baldock, in the County of Hertford, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Wright, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
that I had practised the art of midwifry thirty years, and early in that
practice observed an irregular and complicated kind of labour in childbirth,
which, in country places, where proper advice and assistance could not be
readily procured, often proved fatal both to mother and infant, many of which
lives I had reason to think might have been preserved by a proper and effica-
cious medicine given in time, but there not being any known medicine
which could be depended on to afford such speedy relief as in those
cases was required, I was induced to search diligently after the discovery
of such a medicine, and that, after many years' application and much
expence, had invented & prepared "A MEDICINE, WHICH I CALLED THE
CORDIAL MIXTURE FOR WOMEN IN LABOUR, WHICH LONG EXPERIENCE HAD CON-
FIRMED TO ME MIGHT BE DEPENDED ON FOR PROCURING THE SPEEDY RELIEF
REQUIRED AT THAT CRITICAL PERIOD, AND THAT I MADE NO DOUBT BUT (BY
THE DIVINE PERMISSION) THE SAID MEDICINE WOULD PROVE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE
SAVING MANY LIVES, IP THE VIRTUES AND EFFICACYS OF IT WERE GENERALLY
KNOWN" and therefore, in regard I was the first and sole contrivor &
inventor of the said medicine, and that the same was intirely new, and had
not by any other been brought into publick use, I therefore, most humbly

page_text: prayed His Majesty to grant unto me His Royal Letters Patent for the
sole benefit and advantage of my said invented medicine for the term of four-
teen years, according to the Statuto in that case made and provided; His
said Majesty, being willing to give incouragement to all arts & inventions
which might tend to the publick good, did, by His Letters Patent, under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the First day of August last past,
before the date of these Presents, give and grant unto me, the said William
Wright, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge, & authority, that I,
the said William Wright, my executors, adiñiors, and assigns, by myself &
themselves, or by our deputys, servants, or agents, or such others as I or
they should agree with, and no others, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise and vend my said Invention within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent; in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe obliging
me, the said William Wright, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months next & immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, particularly to describe the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be prepared, otherwise the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages thereby granted, should cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise, not-
withstanding. And His said Majesty, in and by the said Letters Patent, did, for
Himself, His heirs & successors, grant unto me, the said William Wright, my
exors, administrators, and assigns, that the said Letters Patent, the inrollment
or exemplification thereof, should be in and by all things good, firm, valid, suffi-
cient and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof,
and should be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and
beneficial sense for the best advantage of me, the said William Wright, my
exors, adñors, and assigns, as well in all His Majesty's Courts of Record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular the Officers & Ministers of His said
Majesty, His heirs and successors, and amongst all and every His subjects
whatsoever & wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain de-
scribing the nature and quality of the said Invention, or of the materials
thereto conducing and belonging, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent
(referrence being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Wright, in pursuance of the
before-recited proviso, do hereby declare that the cordial mixture above
mentioned is a medicine which greatly facilitates the labour of childbirth, and
is of a cordial nature, being a large compound of the most valuable cordial

page_text: roductions of nature, together with other specifick ingredients extracted and
ombined both by chymical and Galenical preparation.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wright, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and fifty-three.