A CERTAIN MEDICINE OR EMBRO- CATION TO PREVENT OR ALLEVIATE SEA SICKNESS, WHICH MAY BE USEFULLY APPLIED TO OTHER MALADIES
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
DERBISHIRE, of Ely Place, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of December, in the ninth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Philip
Derbishire, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence that
I, the said Philip Derbishire, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Philip Derbishire, my executors, administrators,
and 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 MEDICINE OR EMBRO-
CATION TO PREVENT OR ALLEVIATE SEA SICKNESS, WHICH MAY BE USEFULLY APPLIED
TO OTHER MALADIES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Philip Derbishire, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and scal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, and to cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said 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
Philip Derbishire, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be prepared, are described and ascor-
tained as follows, that is to say:-
In its nature it is an embrocation for sea sickness; that is to say, in some
cases, for preventing sea sickness; in others, for curing the persons afflicted
with sea sickness; and in others, for mitigating the severity of sea sickness.
The manner in which it is to be prepared and applied is as follows, that is
to say:-
Take of crude opium two ounces (avoirdupois), two drachams of extract of
henbane, ten grains of powdered mace, and two ounces of hard mottled soap.
Boil them in sixty ounces of soft water, letting it boil for half an hour, stirring
it well all the time. When cold, add one quart of spirits of wine at sixty
degrees above proof, and three drachams of spirit of ammonia. Rub a descrt
spoonfull of the embrocation well in over the lower end of the breast bone and
under the left ribs the latest time you can conveniently do so previous to
embarkation, and again on board as soon as you have an opportunity. If,
notwithstanding this, you become sick, apply the embrocation as before, and
continue the application while the sickness continues.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Derbishire, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
PHILIP DERBISHIRE. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1829, the aforesaid Philip Derbishire 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.