A CERTAIN MEDICINE CALLED CORDIAL BITTER TINCTURE POR THE STOMACH
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westm', the Fifth
day of April now last past, gave and granted unto HUMPHRY JACKSON, of East
Smithfield, in the Parish of Saint Botolph Without, Aldgate, in the County of
Middlesex, Chymist, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His said
Majestie's special lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority for making
"A CERTAIN MEDICINE CALLED CORDIAL BITTER TINCTURE POR THE STOMACH;" and
that he, the said Humphry Jackson, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or
deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Humphry Jackson,
his executors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thenafter, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend the said
Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of
Wales, Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations in America, in such manner as to him, the said Humphry Jackson,
his extors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem
meet, and that he, the said Humphry Jackson, his executors, admors, 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 license, powers,

page_text: priviledges, and advantages therein granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto
the said Humphry Jackson, his extors, adññors, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said Humphry Jackson should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing under
his band and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within three kalendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterlie cease,
determine, and become void, as by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Humphry Jackson, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be prepared, as follows, videlicet:-
The Rectified Spirit.-Take forty gallons of proof melasses spirit, ten pounds
of Florentine orris root bruised, and ten pounds of salt of tartar; put these
into a still and draw off the spirit, to which add gradually five pounds of the
strong spirit of vitriol, and, by means of a balneo maric, distill off the spirit.
The Compound Spirit of Saffron.-Take of English saffron six pounds, of
the lesser cardamom sceds ten pounds, of Virginia snako root six pounds, of
ginseng root twelve pounds, of the rectified spirit above mentioned fourteen
gallons; infuse for six days, and then distill off the spirit per balneo maria.
Then to this spirit add of Kermes juice ten pounds, of cinamon two pounds,
of mace one pound; draw off the spirit again, per balneo mariæ.
The Compound Extract of Ginseng.-Take of West India ginseng root twenty-
five pounds slic'd, of the tops of lesser centaury, fresh gathered, ten pounds,
of calamus aromaticus slic'd, six pounds; boil these in thirty gallons of water
gently for the space of eight hours, then strain, and add to the ingredients
six gallons of the best French brandy and three gallons of pure water. Digest
these in a very gentle heat ten days; then strain off the tincture, and add it
to the decoction, which must then be evaporated to the consistence of an
extract. Take off the dry'd and fresh-peeled rind of Seville oranges, each
twenty pounds, of the fresh-peeled rind of ripe citrons ten pounds, of gentian
root slic'd twelve pounds, of the lesser cardamom seeds six pounds, of
Peruvian bark two pounds, of cochineal two pounds; put these into a

page_text: wooden vessel, and add of the rectified spirit thirty gallons, of the compound
spirit of saffron twelve gallons, of the compound extract of genseng root
ten pounds, of fair water thirty-six gallons; stir all well together, and
infuse forty days in a warm place, and if the tincture be not of a proper colour,
add as much of the shavings of red saunders as will procure it; strain first
through flannell, and then through paper for use.
paper for use. When this tincture is
strained off, add forty gallons of ale to the ingredients, and infuse forty days,
as before, then strain, and put it up in proper casks for use.
The dose of the first tincture is two teaspoonfulls or more in a glass of wine
or any liquor; the dose of the last is one large spoonfull in half a pint of
warm ale.
In witness whereof, I, the said Humphry Jackson, have to this present
Instrument sett my hand and seal, this Fourth day of July, in the
twenty-seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Second, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and fifty-three.
ALBANY WALLIS.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Fourth day of July, in
the year above written, the aforesaid Humphry Jackson came before the said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And
also the Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the same Fourth day of July, in the year above written.