A NEW COMPOUND MEDICINE, OR ANTI-VENEREAL CATHARTICK ELECTUARY, FOR THE TRUE CURE OF FLESH VENEREAL INJURIES, AND ALL THE LURKING RELICTS OR REMAINS OF OLD ONES, AND WHICH I HAD WITH GREAT LABOUR, INDUSTRY, APPLICATION, STUDY, AND AT A GREAT EXPENCE, BROUGHT TO A VERY SURPRIZING DEGREE OF PERFECTION IN THE CURE OF THE SEVERAL STAGES OF THE VENEREAL DISTEMPER, FROM THE SLIGHTEST INFECTION TO THE MOST INVETERATE DEGREE THEREOF, WITHOUT BREAKING AND IMPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION, INERVATING THE HUMAN SYSTEM, OR LEAVING HITHER FOULNESS OR WEAKNESS BEHIND
Year: 1751

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
Rock, of the Parish of Saint Bridget, otherwise Bride's, London, Licentiate
in Medicines, send greeting.
WHEREAS His Majesty King George the Second, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Seventeenth day of October, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, reciting
that whereas I, the said Richard Rock, had, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sented unto His said Majesty that I was the sole Inventor of a "A NEW
COMPOUND MEDICINE, OR ANTI-VENEREAL CATHARTICK ELECTUARY, FOR THE TRUE
CURE OF FLESH VENEREAL INJURIES, AND ALL THE LURKING RELICTS OR REMAINS
OF OLD ONES, AND WHICH I HAD WITH GREAT LABOUR, INDUSTRY, APPLICATION,
STUDY, AND AT A GREAT EXPENCE, BROUGHT TO A VERY SURPRIZING DEGREE OF
PERFECTION IN THE CURE OF THE SEVERAL STAGES OF THE VENEREAL DISTEMPER,
FROM THE SLIGHTEST INFECTION TO THE MOST INVETERATE DEGREE THEREOF, WITHOUT
BREAKING AND IMPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION, INERVATING THE HUMAN SYSTEM, OR
LEAVING HITHER FOULNESS OR WEAKNESS BEHIND;" His said Majesty therefore,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts & inventions which may be
for the publick good, did, by His said Letters Patents, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Rock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Richard Rock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself and
themselves, or by our deputy or deputies, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of Great Britain

page_text: called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and in His Majestie's Colonies and Plantations in America, to hold unto me,
the said Richard Rock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, from the
date of the said Letters Patent, for and during and unto the full end and
term of fourteen years; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Richard Rock, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
did not within three kalendar months next ensuing the date thereof, cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery, that then the said recited
Letters Patent, and every thing therein contained, should be void, as in
and by tho said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Richard Rock, in compliance with the
said provisoc, do hereby describo the nature of my said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, as followeth (to wit):-
Take of jalap eight pounds; salt of nitre three pounds; electuary lenitive
four pounds; salt of amber two ounces; salt of vipers four ounces; sena five
pounds; spermaceti three pounds; balsam of tolu half a pound; nutmeggs one
pound; Ethiop's mineral two pounds; calomel as dulcified mercury sublimate
eight times sublimed, four ounces; best rhubarb one pound and half; calcined
quicksilver six drams; tartar vitriolated one pound; all the aforesaid medicines
to be finely powdered, and well mixed with syrup of marshmallows according
to art. For an electuary, take the quantity of a small nutmegg every other
morning, drinking any warm small liquors in the time of purging, and take
care of cold.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Rock, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, in the twenty-fifth year
of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Second, over
Great Britain, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and fifty-two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Sixteenth day of January, the
aforesaid Richard Rock came before our said Lord the King in His Chan-
cery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt according
to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Sixteenth day of January, in the said twenty-fifth year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second.