A MEDICINE WHICH I CALL A STOMACH DROP, IT BEING SINGULARY USEFUL IN ALL COMPLAINTS IN THE STOMACH ARISING FROM BILE, INDIGESTION, AND ALL OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE BOWELS, WHICH IT SELDOM FAILS TO REMOVE
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CHASE, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, Surgeon and Apothecary,
send 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 Seventh day of February, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,
the said Samuel Chase, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of them, by myself, and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel Chase, my exccutors,
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,
within that part of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MEDICINE WHICH I
CALL A STOMACH DROP, IT BEING SINGULARY USEFUL IN ALL COMPLAINTS IN THE
STOMACH ARISING FROM BILE, INDIGESTION, AND ALL OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE BOWELS,
WHICH IT SELDOM FAILS TO REMOVE," in such manner as to me, the said Samuel
Chase, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in my
or their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Samuel Chase, my execu
tors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the

page_text: whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Samuel Chase, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Samuel Chase, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Chase, do hereby declare that the said Invention consists and is made
and performed in the following manner viz:-
Take of the best gum myrrh in powder three ounces, French brandy two
pints; infuse it twelve days, shaking the bottle several times in the day.
Take the best English saffron one ounce; root of gallangal, powdered, half an
ounce; cardamon seeds and cinnemon, each bruised, three drams; long pepper
and ginger, each bruised, two drams; French brandy or full-proof molasses spirit
two pints; infuse them for twelve days, shaking them several times in a day,
strain off both the infusions and mix them together. Take of the best succotrine
aloes, in gross powder, four ounces; of soft spring water four ounces; dissolve the
aloes in the water by a gentle heat for three or four days, and then mix with
both the infusions; let them stand altogether six or seven days, after shaking
them; when settled and clear, decant or filter for use. The dose is thirty or
forty drops, for a grown person, twice or three times in a day in any vehicle.
This is a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and of
the manner in which I do use or perform the same.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
second day of February, in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
SAMUEL (L.S.) CHASE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of February,
in the year above mentioned, the said Samuel Chase, 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 men-
tioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their Majesties
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day February, in the year above written.