A CERTAIN CHYMICAL PREPA- RATION, CALLED THE NERVOUS MEDICINE, WHICH HAD BEEN FOUND TO BE EFFECTUAL IN THE CURE OF ALL NERVOUS CASES, SUCH AS CONVULSIVE FITS, EPILEPSYS, VERTIGOS, HYPOCHONDRAICK MELANCHOLLY, HISTERICS, VAPOURS, LOWNESS OF SPIRITS, AND PALPITATION AND TREMBLING OF THE HEART, AS A GREAT MANY OF HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS HAD THEN EXPERIENCED, AND WHICH WOULD BE VERY ADVANTAGEOUS TO GREAT NUMBERS MORE OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN THOSE NERVOUS DISORDERS
Year: 1744

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
HENRY, of the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Doctor of Physick, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of
God, King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of February, in the seventeenth year of
His reign, reciting, that whereas the said Peter Henry had, by his petition,
humbly represented unto His said Mäty that he had, with study and applicacon,
at a great expence, found out, invented, and made "A CERTAIN CHYMICAL PREPA-
RATION, CALLED THE NERVOUS MEDICINE, WHICH HAD BEEN FOUND TO BE EFFECTUAL IN
THE CURE OF ALL NERVOUS CASES, SUCH AS CONVULSIVE FITS, EPILEPSYS, VERTIGOS,
HYPOCHONDRAICK MELANCHOLLY, HISTERICS, VAPOURS, LOWNESS OF SPIRITS, AND
PALPITATION AND TREMBLING OF THE HEART, AS A GREAT MANY OF HIS MAJESTY'S
SUBJECTS HAD THEN EXPERIENCED, AND WHICH WOULD BE VERY ADVANTAGEOUS TO GREAT
NUMBERS MORE OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN THOSE NERVOUS DISORDERS;"
His Majesty did, therefore, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere
motion, give and grant unto me, the said Peter Henry, my executors, admors, and.
assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority to make,
use, exercise, and vend his said Invention within that part of the Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed; to hold to me, the said Peter Henry, my executors, admors, and
assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Peter
Henry, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument

page_text: in writing under my hand and scal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and the liberties and
advantages thereby granted should cease and become void, as in and by the
said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had), may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Henry, in pursuance of the said
provisoe in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, as follows (that is to say):-
My said medicine is composed of assafoetida, amber, myrr, Peruvian bark,
and salt of tartar, which are all to be mixed together and pounded in a mortar,
and then the medicine is extracted from it with spiritus initimus by a
chymical process, and is to be administred to the patient, if a grown person,
in the quantity of four spoonfuls three times a day, and so in proportion to
persons of more tender years; and it operates by a gentle perspiration and a
large discharge of wind out of the stomach and bowells, giving imediato
releife in violent pains in the head, and strengthening the whole nervous system.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Henry, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the seventeenth year of the
reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and forty-four.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
JOHN LECHE.
W* ASHBY.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Twelfth day of May, in
the year last mentioned, the aforesaid Peter Henry came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And
also the Instrument 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, & so forth.