A CERTAIN SPECIFIC OR REMEDY FOR THE CURE, ALLEVIATION, OR PREVENTION OF RHEUMATIC, GOUTY, OR OTHER AFFECTIONS ARISING PROM COLDS OR OTHER CAUSES
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
COLES, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the fifth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Coles, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said William Coles, iny exors, admors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Coles, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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 Invention of "A CERTAIN SPECIFIC OR REMEDY FOR THE CURE,
ALLEVIATION, OR PREVENTION OF RHEUMATIC, GOUTY, OR OTHER AFFECTIONS ARISING
PROM COLDS OR OTHER CAUSES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, that I, the said William Coles, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Coles, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed (that is to say):-
My Invention consists of certain herbal, botanical, mineral, or medicinal
substances mixed together, and sewed between two pieces of linen or calico, or
other such like material, with thread, silk, or cotton, or any other such
material for sewing linen, &c. The linen or cotton being formed in the shape
of gloves for the hands, scalps for the head, or chest for inflamation in the
chest, epaulets for shoulders, and other similar devices, to fit and to be worn
externally upon the neck, back, shoulders, elbows, wrist, knees, ancles, or soles
of the feet, or for any other part of the human body, for the relief of rheumas-
tism, lumbago, cramp, or any other bodily pains arising from obstructions,
perspiration, or for any impediment to the free circulation of the blood, either
of the above will be obviated by the use of those rheumatic bands, when made
in the following manner, and filled with the following herbal, botanical, mineral,
or medicinal ingredients admixed in their due proportions, videlicet:
Figure 1 represents a scalp for the head or band for the chest, which
contains two pieces of calico or linen stitched together at dotted lines, forming
grooves or niches into which the following medicinal and other ingredients are
sewed in or confined within those limits, and which medicinal preparation
consists of four distinct ingredients mixed together in the following proportions,
videlicet Of sulphur of brimstone twenty-eight pounds, of seneca powders or
rattle-snake powders one pound, of the flowers or seeds of lavender one pound,
of the flower or seeds of thyme four ounces. These ingredients being mixed
together form the actual and only substance which I employ for relieving the
above complaints when worn externally upon or near the seat of the complaint;
and for the better and more effectually securing the aforesaid ingredients or
medicinal preparations a second covering of jean or silk, or some other sub-
stance, is sewed over and all round the aforesaid rheumatic bands, and which
ingredients thus secured will retain their strength and virtues for many
years.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Coles, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
WILLIAM COLES. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1835, the aforesaid William Coles came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.