A NEW OR IMPROVED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR MEDICINE, TO BE USED IN THE FORM OF PILLS, FOR THE CURE OB AMELIORATION OF SCIATICA, RHEUMATISM AND GOUT, LUMBAGO, AGUE, AND OTHER DISEASES OF A SIMILAR NATUREs
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
HEWITT, of No. 5, Stockwell Common, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of January, in the first year of Her reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Hewitt, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Henry Hewitt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such
others as I, the said Henry Hewitt, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED CHEMICAL
COMPOUND OR MEDICINE, TO BE USED IN THE FORM OF PILLS, FOR THE CURE OB
AMELIORATION OF SCIATICA, RHEUMATISM AND GOUT, LUMBAGO, AGUE, AND OTHER
DISEASES OF A SIMILAR NATURE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a

page_text: proviso obliging me, the said Henry Hewitt, 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 performed, and to cause
the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said William Hewitt, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to bo performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is
to say):-
My Invention of a New or Improved Chemical Compound or Medicine to bo
used in the Form of Pills, for the Cure or Amelioration of Sciatica, Rheuma-
tism and Gout, Lumbago, Ague, and other Diseases of a similar Nature,
consists in the use and application of a chemical compound mixture or
medicine in the form of pills, the component parts thereof being gum ammo-
niacum, garlic, and syrup of poppies in certain proportions, according to the
nature and state of the disease, which pills are to be administered to or taken
by the patient in numbers proportionate to the mildness or virulence of the
attack of the complaint; (that is to say,) I take gum ammoniacum and garlic
in the "bulb," or "clove," as usually sold as an articlo of commerce, in equal
proportions, blended together with syrup of poppies, to a proper consistency,
and made into pills of four grains in weight each. The gum ammoniacum is
first beaten to a powder in a mortar, and then added to the garlic, which is
also beaten or bruised in a similar way, and to these is added a sufficient
quantity of syrup of poppies to render the compound of a proper consistency to
be made into pills; and when the whole are well blended together the com-
pound is to be rolled and divided into pills in the usual manner. The dose I
recommend is as follows: Two pills to be taken by the patient at bed time
and one in the morning, in ordinary attacks; but in severe and obstinate
cases the dose may be increased to three or four at bed time, until relief be
obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hewitt, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
HENRY HEWITT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of July, in the
second year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said Henry Hewitt
came before our said Lord the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late
Majesty King George the Third.