A PILL WHICH HE CALLED PILULA SALUTARIA, OR HEALTH-BESTORING PILL, WHICH HE HAS WITH GREAT LABOUR, INDUSTRY, APPLICATION, STUDY, AND GREAT EXPENCE, BROUGHT TO A VERY SURPRISING DEGREE OF PERFECTION IN THE CURE OF GENERAL CHRONICAL DISEASES, IN ALL THOSE OF THE CUTANEOUS KIND, FROM THE ITCH TO THE LEPROSY, AND THAT IN A SINGULAR MANNER IT PROVES A REMEDY FOR THOSH NAMED RHEUMATISM, SCURVY, AND VENEREAL
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
WHEREAS His Majesty, by His most gracious Letters Patents under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day
of March last, reciting, that WALTER LEAKE, of the City of London, Prac-
titioner in Physick, had, by his Petition, humbly represented to His Majesty
that he, the said Walter Leake, was sole Inventor of "A PILL WHICH
HE CALLED PILULA SALUTARIA, OR HEALTH-BESTORING PILL, WHICH HE HAS
WITH GREAT LABOUR, INDUSTRY, APPLICATION, STUDY, AND GREAT EXPENCE, BROUGHT
TO A VERY SURPRISING DEGREE OF PERFECTION IN THE CURE OF GENERAL
CHRONICAL DISEASES, IN ALL THOSE OF THE CUTANEOUS KIND, FROM THE ITCH TO
THE LEPROSY, AND THAT IN A SINGULAR MANNER IT PROVES A REMEDY FOR THOSH
NAMED RHEUMATISM, SCURVY, AND VENEREAL;" but as the said Walter Leake
apprehended he could not then with safety discover the respective ingredients
of which the said pill is made or compounded, and the manner of preparing
the said pill, without being previously guarded against intruders for a certain
term of years by the authority and sanction of His Majesty's Letters Patent,
the said Walter Leake therefore proposed, upon such being granted to him, to
describe the said pill by an instrument under his hand and seal, to be inrolled
in the High Court of Chancery' within three calendar months next after the
date of the said Letters Patent, and therefore prayed His Maty would be
graciously pleased to grant to him, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole
use and benefit of the said Invention within that part of Great Britain called

page_text: England and Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years; His Majesty thereupon, of His especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, by the said Letters Patent, for Himself, His heirs,
and successors, gave and granted unto the said Walter Leake, his executors,
admors, and assigns, his especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge & autho-
rity, that he, the said Walter Leake, his executors, adñiors, 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 Walter Loake, his
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
his said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Walter Leake, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, in their discretion
should seem meet, and that he, the said Walter Leake, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing,
accrewing, and arising, reason of the said Invention, for and during the term
of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license,
power, priviledges, and advantages therein granted or mentioned to be granted
unto the said Walter Leake, his 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 Statutes in such case made and provided; and in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Walter Leake should
not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be prepared, by an instrument in writing
under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court
of Chancery within three calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
libertys and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as by the said Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS that he, the said Walter Leake,
in pursuance of the said Letters Patent, and in performance of the above-
recited proviso for the particularly describing and ascertaining the nature of

page_text: his said Invention, and in what manner the same is prepared, doth hereby
express and declare that the said pills, for the sole vending whereof His Ma-
jesty was graciously pleased to grant him His Royal Letters Patent aforesaid,
are compounded of the druggs and ingredients and according to the quantityes
of each, as herein-after is particularly mentioned and described, and the
same are prepared and made into pills in the manner and according to the
directions as follows, to wit:-
Calomell, golden sulphur of antimonij, and prepared steel, one dram each.
Make a perfect mixture of these powders, and then form them into a mass
for pills, with a sufficient quantity of balsamic syrup; each pill to weigh six
grains.
In witness whereof, the said Walter Leake hath hereunto sett his hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and fifty-three.