"A PECULIAR COMPOSITION WHICH GIVES IMEDIATE EASE IN ALL DISEASES IN THE BREAST, AND WHICH I CALL WEST'S PECTORAL ELIXI
Year: 1752

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WEST, of the City of London, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King Georgo the Second, by.
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the First day of January, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said George West, His especial licence that I,
the said George West, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PECULIAR COMPOSITION
WHICH GIVES IMEDIATE EASE IN ALL DISEASES IN THE BREAST, AND WHICH I CALL
WEST'S PECTORAL ELIXI;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a pro-
visoe obliging me, the said George West, by a writing under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within three kalendar months after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereunto had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I,, the said
George West, do hereby declare that the said Invention is to be performed
in the manner following (that is to say) :—

page_text: Take liquorish, dryed clicampain, angelica, and orris roots, all bruised and
cutt small, of each thirty-two pounds; fat figgs, Malaga raisons stoned, and the
best honey, of each thirty-two pounds; raison brandy, thirty-two gallons; salt of
tartar, eight pounds; let these ingredients stand infusing thirty days, stirring it
often with a strong staff. When this has stood long enough, strain it through
a canvas bagg in a winepress; put the strained liquor into a large tub big
enough to hold as much again as you intend to make, because, when some of
the other ingredients are added, it will ferment and rise; take garden snails &
millipedes, of each four gallons; bruise them separate to a perfect paste, and
stir them well till they incorporate with the liquor; dissolve two pounds of
Spanish juice of liquorish in water, gum arabick, and gum tragacanth, of each
one pound, dissolved seperate in two gallons of spring water; mix these well
with the other, then put in a pound of the best flowers of benjamin, gum
styrace, camphir, aud gum benjamin powdered, of each one pound; balsam
tolu, two pounds; dissolve them in a sufficient quantity of spirits of wine, all
seperate, in stone bottles, well corked, and a bladder and a piece of leather
tyed over it to keep it down; set them in a sand heat or before a fire, often
shaking them; of the best and clearest opium one pound, dissolved as the
other gums; when all are well dissolved, put them into a tub, & mix them
well together. Then put in one gallon of spirit of sulphur by a little at a time,
with great care, for it will ferment and rise very much; keep stirring till all
is in and setled; then put in one pint of the best oil of annisced & the follow-
ing decoction: tako coltsfoot, horehound, isop, scabiouse, maidenhair, ground
ivy, marsh mallows, roots and leaves, & St. John's wort, of each twenty-four
handfulls, angelica, parsley, and linseed, each one pound; boil them in a suffi-
cient quantity of water to keep them covered; when they have boiled about
an hour, let it stand and cool; press out the liquor, and dissolve four ounces
of honey in every quart; put it into the tub, and stir all together well every
day for another week; then put it into casks to fine down for use.-N.B. It
must stand in the cask five or six months before it is fit for botling. A grown
person may take an hundred drops at night going to bed, in beer, ale, wine,
tea, or any other liquor, and increase the dose till it comes to a large spoonfull.
Children begin with twenty drops, and increase till it comes to sixty. It may,
if the symptoms are urgent, be repeated every six hours.
In witness whereof, I, the said George West, have hereunto set my hand
& seal, this Thirteenth day of March 1752.
GEORGE WEST. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Thirteenth day of March,
the said George West came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, &
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, & every thing therein contained, in form
above said. And the said Writing was stampt according to the Statute made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William & Queen Mary, &
so forth.