AN ENTIRE NEW MEDICINE, CALLED BEAUMÉ D'ARQUEBUSADE CONCENTRÉ, OR CON- CENTRATED BALSAM OF ARQUEBUSADE
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
THOMPSON, late of the Strand, but now of King Street, Covent Garden, in the
County of Middlesex, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of October, in the twenty-seventh year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Thompson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said John Thompson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or my or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
Thompson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, His
Dominions of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"AN ENTIRE NEW MEDICINE, CALLED BEAUMÉ D'ARQUEBUSADE CONCENTRÉ, OR CON-
CENTRATED BALSAM OF ARQUEBUSADE," in such manner as to me, the said John
Thompson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should,
in my or their discretion, seem meet, and that I, the said John Thompson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, and accruing and arising by reason of the said Invention,

page_text: for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise
and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-befor
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Thompson, m
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full en
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next an
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to th
Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent i
contained a provisoe obliging me, the said John Thompson, by an instrumen
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of th
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be pre
pared, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within on
calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letter
Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may mor
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the sai
John Thompson, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said In
vention, and declare that the same is composed of the juices of the following
herbs, roots, &c.; videlicet:-
Take of the juice of, first,-
Stramonium majus album
Rhus obsonoriam
Helleborus niger
Astrantia imperatoria
or
Great white thorn apple,
Sumach,
Black hellibore,
The great master wort,
of each, one pint.
2d, Asparagus corruda
Lychius saponaria
Hieracea Cichoracea, properly
Calcitrapa flore alba
Cistus sabdenifera
Asteriscus
Chomodrys maritima
3d, Salvia agrestris
Origanum
Pulegium Cervinum
Panax heracleum majus
2
or
"
Prickly rock asparagus,
Soap wort,
Female hawkweed,
of each, three pints.
White-flowered star thistle,
"
"
Sweet gum cistus,
Star wort,
"
Syrian herb mastick,
or
Wild rock sage,
Wild marjoram,
29.
Hart's pennyroyal,
The greater all-heat,
"
of each, four pints.
Put these altogether into a large earthen jar with a narrow mouth, placed
a tub to catch what works over in fermentation, adding thereto, of the

page_text: genine salt of soda (so called), prepared at Alicant, in Spain, two pounds;
bullock's gall, perfectly fresh, two quarts. When the fermentation is over, and
the feeces have subsided, pour off the clear liquor, and put it into a strong
retort, which having placed in a sand heat, and luted a receiver, gradually rise
the fire to such a height as is sufficient to throw off all the parts capable of
being raised. This done, extinguish the fire, and when the vessel is quite cold
unlute the receiver, and having separated the oily parts from the watry, add
the oil to what remains in the retort, and stop it close. Then carefully
evaporate the residuum to the consistence of honey, and put to the
above, adding at the same time to every quart of liquid in the retort six
ounces of camphire extracted from rosemary, first dissolved in a sufficient
quantity of the very best rectified spirit of wine. Put the whole into a strong
bottle with a ground stopper; place it in a moderate sand heat for five or six
days, often shaking the vessel; then let it subside, and pour off the beaumé
for use. Note.-During the whole of the process great care must be taken
not to increase the heat too hastily.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thompson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the twenty-
seventh 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 eighty-six.