A MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF CONSUMPTIONS, ASTHMAS, COUGHS, AND OTHER DISORDERS, CALLED BY ME HOWE'S PECTORAL LOZENGES OF HOREHOUND
Year: 1788

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
Howe, late of the City of Bath, but now of Tavistock Street, Covent Garden,
in the County of Middlesex, Chymist and Druggist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by. His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Sixth day of October, in the twenty-eighth year of His reign, did give unto
me, the said Thomas Howe, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Howe, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MEDICINE
FOR THE CURE OF CONSUMPTIONS, ASTHMAS, COUGHS, AND OTHER DISORDERS, CALLED
BY ME HOWE'S PECTORAL LOZENGES OF HOREHOUND;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Howe, to
cause a particular description of 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, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Howe, do hereby declare that my said Invention or discovery of
a Medicine for the Cure of Consumptions, Asthmas, Coughs, and other

page_text: Disorders, which I call Howe's Pectoral Lozenges of Horehound, is
described and prepared in manner following, that is to say:-
Take of the herb horehound one ounce, of liquorish roots two ounces; let
these articles be boiled in two quarts of water until it is reduced to one;
then strain it, and add two pound of the best honey and one pound of double
refined sugar; then boil it to the consistence of thick syrup; then powder
very fine two pounds of white sugar candy, a quarter of an ounce of orris, and
two ounces of the best starch powder, first mixing the starch and orris powder
in a marble mortar with one ounce of the mucilage of gum tragacanth, one
dram of the paregoric elixir, and four ounces of the above syrup; then add
the white candy, and well beat the whole up to a paste, and form it into
lozenges; one or two of which may be taken at a time, suffering them to
dissolve gradually in the mouth, and are to be repeated till relief is found.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-second day of October, One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-eight.
CHA* RIVERS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1788, the aforesaid Thomas Howe came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight..