THE CURE OF CON- SUMPTIONS AND DISEASE IN THE LUNGS, BY HIM CALLED 'GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE BALSAM
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, NATHANIEL
GODBOLD, of Bloomsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date the Third day of May, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto the said Nathaniel Godbold, his exors, admňors, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said
Nathaniel Godbold, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by
himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as he, the said Nathaniel Godbold, his exors, adñiors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, his Invention for "THE CURE OF CON-
SUMPTIONS AND DISEASE IN THE LUNGS, BY HIM CALLED 'GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE
BALSAM," within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in

page_text: which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if the said Natha-
niel Godbold 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 hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages thereby granted, should be void, as in and by the said
recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that conformable to and in compliance with the said
provisoe contained in the said recited Letters Patent, I, the said Nathaniel
Godbold, do hereby describe, ascertain, and declare, that my said Invention of
making and preparing the said medicine, by me called "Godbold's Vegetable
Balsam," for the Cure of Consumptions and Disease in the Lungs, is made
and prepared by, with, and from the following herbs, drugs, and gums:-
The names of the herbs (from which the essence is extracted for com-
pounding the vegetable balsam) are the following, viz:-Thistles, mallows,
yarrow, planton, nettles, cowslips, bucrs, pastory, aron wake, robin, maiden
hair, egremony, peony, linaria, endue, clemont, mandinwort, rosemary, rue,
gibrumbeth, alecost, featherfew, allkenkengy, algelica, ringea, wormwood, tor-
mentil, sena, strawberries, red currants, black currants, rasberries, damisons,
capsicum, ciceroy, clderberries, banberries, garlick, mivabolano, elecampaigne,
betony, milfoil, anniseeds, tamarinds, and bays, the essences of all which said
herbs are extracted by distillation, and are all preserved seperately and apart
from each other in syrups, and are mixed with the following gums and drugs,
viz gum dragon, gum guaicum, gum Arabic, and gum Canada. These being
dissolved in double distilled vinegar, with a quantity of storax dissolved in spirits
of wine and oil of cinnamon, it is bottled off and kept full three years before it
is fit to bo administered or proper to be taken as a medicine for the curo of
consumptions and disease in the lungs, or any asthmatic complaint.
In witness whereof, the said Nathaniel Godbold hath hereunto set
his hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
NATH (L.s.) GODBOLD.
HEN HORTH.
J. ROBERTS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid Nathaniel Godbold came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.