A NEW COMPOUND MEDICINAL REMEDY, CALLED ROTULE ANTHELMINTHICE, OR WORM- DESTROYING CAKES, WHICH I HAD BROUGHT TO A SURPRISING DEGREE OF PERFECTION, FOR THE ERADICATING THE SEMINA OR SEED OF WORMS, AND FOR THE EFFECTUAL DESTROYING OF WORMS IN THE BODIES OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, AND FOR CLEANSING THE STOMACH AND BOWELLS FROM ALL MANNER OF FILTH AND SLINE, AND FOR GIVING IMMEDIATE EASE IN CHOLICKS AND GRIPES, AND PREVENTING THEIR RETURNS, AND ALSO FOR THE CURE OF HYDROPICAL DISORDERS, YELLOW JAUNDICE, AGUES, HOOPING OR CHIN COUGHS, BLOODY FLUX, AND VARIOUS OTHER INDISPOSITIONS, AS A GREAT MANY OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECTS HAD ALREADY HAPPILY EXPERIENCED
Year: 1759

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
STORY, of the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
Apothecary, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Third day of February, in the thirty-second year of His
reign, reciting that I, the said Edward Story, had, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His said Majesty that I had, for the space of twenty years then
last, exercised and followed the business of an Apothecary, and, in the course of
my application, labour, and study and experience, solely invented and made "A
NEW COMPOUND MEDICINAL REMEDY, CALLED ROTULE ANTHELMINTHICE, OR WORM-
DESTROYING CAKES, WHICH I HAD BROUGHT TO A SURPRISING DEGREE OF PERFECTION,
FOR THE ERADICATING THE SEMINA OR SEED OF WORMS, AND FOR THE EFFECTUAL
DESTROYING OF WORMS IN THE BODIES OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, AND FOR
CLEANSING THE STOMACH AND BOWELLS FROM ALL MANNER OF FILTH AND SLINE,
AND FOR GIVING IMMEDIATE EASE IN CHOLICKS AND GRIPES, AND PREVENTING THEIR
RETURNS, AND ALSO FOR THE CURE OF HYDROPICAL DISORDERS, YELLOW JAUNDICE,
AGUES, HOOPING OR CHIN COUGHS, BLOODY FLUX, AND VARIOUS OTHER INDISPOSITIONS,
AS A GREAT MANY OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECTS HAD ALREADY HAPPILY
EXPERIENCED," and praying His said Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole use
thereof; His said Majesty did thereby give and grant unto me, the said Edward
Story, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Edward Story, my executors,

page_text: administrators, and assigns, and every of them, and no other, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also His said Majesty's Planta-
tions and Colonies abroad, for and during the term of fourteen years from the
date of the said recited Letters Patent; in which said recited Letters Patent
is contained (among other things) a proviso that if I, the said Edward Story,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, 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 Edward Story, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the ingredients whereof the same is composed, as follows (that is
to say):-
resina zalapii, diagridii ana uncias quatuor, antimonii diaphoretici uncias
duas, calomelini ppt uncias duodecim, tartari vitriolati semunciam, floris
sulphuris albissimi unciam unam, cremonis tartari uncias sex, cinnabaris
antimonii recenter levigati unciam unam, olei cinnamonii guttas decem,
caryophillorum nucis moschata ana guttas sexdecim, juniperi guttas triginta,
sacchari albissimi libras quinque, mucilaginis tragacanthi Arabici ana partes
æquales in aqua rosarum, factæ contunde optime in marmoreo mortario, ut
fiat massa et exinde fiant rotulæ. Dosis, singula contineat scrupulos quatuor
semis.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Story, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixth day of March, in the thirty-second year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Sixth day of March, in
the thirty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
the said Edward Story came before our said Lord the King in His Chan-
cery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing
therein contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped
according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Tenth day of March, in the said thirty-second year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second, 1759.