NEW-INVENTED MEDICINES FOR GIVING IMMEDIATE RELEIP IN PAINS AND DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELLS AND OTHER MEMBRANEOUS PARTS OF THE BODY
Year: 1757

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GREENOUGH, of the Parish of Saint Martin Ludgate, Apothecary, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirty-first day of October, in the thirty-first year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Greenough, His speciall licence that I, tho
said Thomas Greenough, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Plantations abroad, my "NEW-INVENTED
MEDICINES FOR GIVING IMMEDIATE RELEIP IN PAINS AND DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH
AND BOWELLS AND OTHER MEMBRANEOUS PARTS OF THE BODY;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas
Greenough, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of the said Inventions, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in complyance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Greenough, do hereby declare that one of the medicines, which is
called the volatille balsam, is prepared of the several materials, and in the
same proportions thereof, as is contained in the receipt first hereafter men-
tioned, that is to say:-
Unite one part of the universal acid, concentrated as much as possible,
with three parts of highly dephlegmated alcohol. Extract from these the

page_text: mineral anodine liquor of Hoffmann; take cight parts of this mineral
anodyne liquor, two parts of vegetable expressed oil rendred, essentiall, that
is, soluible in spirits of wine, a small quantity of the same oil not rendred
essentiall, the same of animal oil well purified, half a part of the same united
to an alkali, about one sixteenth part of oil of lavender, and about one thirtieth
part of the prepared fæcula of the Indian woad, which being digested together
a sufficient time, pour of the clear liquor.
And I, the said Thomas Greenough, do hereby further declare, that the
other of my said new-invented medicine, which is called stomatick lozenges,
is prepared of the several materials, and in the same proportions thereof, as is
contained in the receipt hereafter also mentioned, that is to say :-
Extract from either the nitrous or marine motherwater the substance
called the solutive panacea, and free it entirely from its fixed air. Mix it
well with its equal weight of double-refined sugar, and add to it about a two-
hundredth part of the essence of carraway seeds, near the same quantity of
that of the cerasus trapezuntina of Parkinson, the like quantity of the essentiall
oil of lemons, and a sufficient quantity of the extract of the lapathum Hortense
of Caspar Baukine, to form cakes or lozenges.
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forth.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of February, in the thirty-first year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second, 1758.