INVENTION FOR THE CURE OF CONSUMPTIONS AND DISEASE IN THE LUNGS, AND FOR THE CURE OF THE SCROPHULA AND GOUT, BY HIM CALLED GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE BALSAM, GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE OINTMENT, AND GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE PILL
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, NATHANIEL
GODBOLD, of Bloomsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, sendeth
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 Twenty-seventh day of November, in the thirty-ninth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto the said Nathaniel Godbold, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said Nathaniel Godbold, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and
their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as be, the said
Nathaniel Godbold, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend his "INVENTION FOR THE CURE OF CONSUMPTIONS AND DISEASE
IN THE LUNGS, AND FOR THE CURE OF THE SCROPHULA AND GOUT, BY HIM CALLED
GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE BALSAM, GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE OINTMENT, AND GODBOLD'S
VEGETABLE PILL," within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if the
said Nathaniel Godbold should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is prepared,
by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the same

page_text: Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should be
void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that conformable to and in compliance with the said
provisoe contained in the said recited Letters Patent, I, the said Nathaniel
Godbold do hereby describe, ascertain, and declare that my said Invention of
making and preparing the said medicine by me called "Godbold's Vegetable
Balsam," for the cure of consumptions and disease in the lungs, is made
and prepared by, with, and from the following herbs, drugs, and gums.
The names of the herbs (from which the essence is extracted for con-
pounding the Vegetable Balsam) are the following (videlicet) :-Thistles,
mallows, yarrow, plantain, nettles, cowslips, buers, pastory, aron, wake robin,
maiden hair, agremony, peony, limaria, endue, calament, mandimwort, rose-
mary, rue, gibrumbetti, alecast, featherfew, allkenkengy, angelica, ringea,
wormwood, tormentil, horehound, coltsfoot, senna, strawberries, red currants,
black currants, rasberries, damisons, capsicum, ciceroy, elderberries, ban-
berries, garlick, elecampaigne, betony, milfoil, anniseeds, slows, hips, peaches,
mulberries, buck thornberries, tamarinds, and bays, the essences of all
which said herbs are extracted by distillation, and all preserved separately
and apart from each other in syrups, and are mixed with the following
gums and drugs (videlicet): Gum dragon, gum guiacum, gum arabic,
and gum Canada; Venus turpentine; these being dissolved in the best
double-distilled vinegar, with a quantity of storax dissolved in spirits of wine
and oil of cinnamon; it is bottled off, and kept full three years before it is fit
to be administered or proper to be taken as a medicine for the cure of con-
sumptions and desease in the lungs, or any asthmatic complaint. And the
vegetable pill and vegetable ointment are respectively made from the said
herbs and gums from which the syrup herein-before mentioned is extracted, by
the same herbs and gums being resolved into a substance which produces the
said pill and ointment for the cure of scrophula and gout, by taking the said
pill, and by an external application of the said ointment on the part affected.
In witness whereof, the said Nathaniel Godbold hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
JN° LEE.
JOHN CUSTANCE.
N. GODBOLD. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Nathaniel Godbold came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year above
written.