NEW-INVENTED MEDICINE OR DROPS FOR THE CURE OF FEVERS AND ALL INFLAMATORY DISORDERS; THAT THE EXPERIENCE OF ITS SOVEREIGN EFFICACY, NOT ONLY IN THE AFOVE DISORDERS, BUT IN MANY CHRONIC DISORDERS, ARE INDISPUTABLE; AND WHAT MUST RENDER THIS MEDICINE PARTICULARLY SERVICABLE IS, THAT IT OPERATES WITHOUT THE LEAST VIOLENCE OR DISTURBANCE TO THE ANIMAL ECONOMY, EVEN TO THE MOST DELICATE CONSTITUTION
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
NORRIS, of Duke Street, Westminster, in the County of Middex, Chemist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellency Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Seventh
day of December, in the ninth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Norris, my exors, adñors, and assigns, His said Majesty's
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Thomas Norris, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, His
said Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my "NEW-INVENTED
MEDICINE OR DROPS FOR THE CURE OF FEVERS AND ALL INFLAMATORY DISORDERS;
THAT THE EXPERIENCE OF ITS SOVEREIGN EFFICACY, NOT ONLY IN THE AFOVE
DISORDERS, BUT IN MANY CHRONIC DISORDERS, ARE INDISPUTABLE; AND WHAT MUST
RENDER THIS MEDICINE PARTICULARLY SERVICABLE IS, THAT IT OPERATES WITHOUT
THE LEAST VIOLENCE OR DISTURBANCE TO THE ANIMAL ECONOMY, EVEN TO THE
MOST DELICATE CONSTITUTION;" in such manner as to me, my exors, admors,
and assigns, should seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas Norris, my exors,
adiňors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit,
benefit, commodity and advantage accruing and arising from the said Invention

page_text: during the time aforesaid; and there is a provisoe contained in the said Letters
Patent, obliging me, the said Thomas Norris, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be formed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
calender months next after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said medicine or drops are as follows (that
is to say):
Antimon. cand. hung. rs. vitr. antim., pt. s. a. sine ulla additione, fiat
tinctura mediante acet. vin. s. a. Edulcora tincturam ad formam ol. rs.
sp. vin. aq. pluv. lign. ust. terr. sal petro, q. s., fiant calcinatio vitrificacio
digestio evaporatio dulcificatio destillatio & fermentatio, s. a. Mediante igue.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Norris, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifth day of April, in the ninth 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
sixty-nine.
stampt), in the presence of
SAM² LARKE.
W. BRERETON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of April, in the year
of our Lord 1769, the aforesaid Thomas Norris 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 stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-nine.