A TINCTURE FOR FAMILY USE, TO PRESERVE THE BLOOD FROM SIZINESS AND A SALINE SCORBUTIC ACRIMONY, AND FOR MAINTAINING THE APPETITE, DIGESTION, STRENGTH, AND CHEARPULNESS OF THE BODY; WHICH IN A LONG AND LARGE EXPERIENCE HAS PROVED OF GREAT SERVICE IN RHEUMATIC AND GOUTY CASES, AND AGAINST OTHER PAINS OF THE HEAD, STOMACH, BOWELLS, BACK, AND LIMBS, AND AGAINST WEAKNESS AND LOWNESS OF THE SPIRITS, &c.
Year: 1762

page_text: LOBB, Doctor of Physick, send greeting.
WHEREAS is most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Baitain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-first day of May, in the second year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Theophilus Lobb, His especial licence that I, the
said Theophilus Lobb, during the term of years therein expressed, should and.
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A TINCTURE FOR FAMILY USE, TO
PRESERVE THE BLOOD FROM SIZINESS AND A SALINE SCORBUTIC ACRIMONY, AND FOR
MAINTAINING THE APPETITE, DIGESTION, STRENGTH, AND CHEARPULNESS OF THE
BODY; WHICH IN A LONG AND LARGE EXPERIENCE HAS PROVED OF GREAT SERVICE
IN RHEUMATIC AND GOUTY CASES, AND AGAINST OTHER PAINS OF THE HEAD,
STOMACH, BOWELLS, BACK, AND LIMBS, AND AGAINST WEAKNESS AND LOWNESS OF THE
SPIRITS, &c.;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoc,
obliging me, the said Theophilus Lobb, under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same
is to be prepared, to be inrolled in Ilis Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four kalender months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had), may more fully and at.
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Theophilus Lobb, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a tincture for
family use, to preserve the blood from siziness and a saline scorbutic acrimony,

page_text: and for maintaining the appetite, digestion, strength, and chearfulness of the
body, which in a long and large experience has proved of great service in
rheumatic and gouty cases, and against other pains of the head, stomach,
bowels, back, and limbs, and against weakness and lowness of the spirits, &c.,
is to be prepared in the manner following, that is to say:-
This tincture I make with the following ingredients, (viz³),
1. The roots of gentian, sliced thin, two pounds.
2. The roots of golangals, sliced thin;
2. Cubebs, bruised;
4. Grains of paradice, bruised; of each, one pound.
5. Virginian snake root, four ounces.
6. Red saunders, rasped, eight ounces.
7. Gum myrrh, one ounce, in powder.
8. Leaves of common wormwood, dried, two ounces.
Of the best dulcified spirit of nitre, five pints.
Of the rectified spirits of wine, (so called, that sort of them which is
burnt in lamps,) ten gallons.
Of the eight dry ingredients I make so many tinctures seperately.
My apparatus for making my eight tinctures of the ingredients are eight
strong glass jarrs with wide mouths, that will admit the hand to be put into
them, with a short neck for tying coverings over them. On each side of the jarr
a number is pasted in large capital figures correspondent to the figures above;
likewise strong round-bellied glass bottles that will hold a gallon each, and
some that will hold five gallons each; four glass funnels for filtring, and
filtring paper; white leather, such as is commonly used to tye over gallypots;
bladders; scales and weights, from an ounce to a pound; pewter measures
that will hold a quarter of a pint, half a pint, a pint, and a quart; a large
marble mortar with a wooden pestle, and a small marble mortar with a marble
pestle; an oak barrel with iron hoops, to stand on one end, that will hold ten
gallons, with a brass cock at the bottom; a brass mold for making the glass
bottles to hold a quarter of a pint each.
THE MANNER OF MAKING MY TINCTURE FOR FAMILY USE.
I put the eight dry ingredients seperately into the eight glass jarrs numbered
with large capital figures pasted on the sides of them in the order that the
druggs are numbered in this receipt. On the first four numbers three quarts
of the spirits of wine are poured; on each of them is tyed a strong bladder,
with the smooth side next the jarr; after the rough side of the bladder has
been supplyed with warm water, then over each bladder is tyed white leather,

page_text: with the hair side upward, with the same capital figure wrote on the middle of
it as is on the side. On the number five and six, two quarts of spirits are put
on the ingredients, and, into the number seven and eight, one quart of the
spirits of wine are put into each of them, and each of these jarrs have bladders
and leather tyed on them, and have capital figures, in the same manner as the
first four, and stand in a cold digestion three weeks, the jarrs being shaken or
rolled once or twice a day; then each tincture is filtred through two sheets of
filtring paper, in a glass funnel, seperately, into one of the big-bellied bottles,
and corked close; eighteen quarts of spirits of wine are used in these first
tinctures; then the same quantities of the spirit of wine are put on the
ingredients, and the bladders and leathers tyed down as before, and stand in
digestion three weeks, and then filtred in the same manner. Then all the
seperate tinctures except the red are put together in the barrel, to which is
added five pints of the dulcified spirit of nitre; and, lastly, is added by degrees
the red tincture, till it comes to the colour of the standard; then it is drawn
out of the barrel immediately into two large bottles that will hold five gallons
cach, which are corked close, and the tincture is finished and fit for bottling.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theophilus Lobb, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June, One thousand seven
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Nineteenth day of June,
in the year abovesaid, the aforesaid Theophilus Lobb came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
5 and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, & so forth.