A NEW-INVENTED MEDICINE PREPARED IN PART CHEMICALLY, AND COMPOUNDED OF SEVERAL INGREDIENTS, NOW COMMONLY CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE BEAUME DE VIE
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
HENDERSON, of the City of London, Merchant, 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
Eleventh day of February, in the seventh year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Christopher Henderson, together with one John
Hopkins and Thomas Beckett, His especial licence that they, the said John
Hopkins, Thomas Beckett, and I, the said Christopher Henderson, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exer-
cise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, "A
NEW-INVENTED MEDICINE PREPARED IN PART CHEMICALLY, AND COMPOUNDED OF
SEVERAL INGREDIENTS, NOW COMMONLY CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE BEAUME DE
VIE" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said Christopher Henderson, or some or one of us, under our hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a particular descrip-
tion 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 four calendar months next 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Christopher Henderson, do hereby declare that the said medicine is com-
pounded as followeth (that is to say) :-
Take of the highest cordial, balsamic, and stomachic ingredients a proper
quantity of each, according to the quantity you want to make, which are to be
infused without heat in a cephalic menstruum for the space of seven days, to
which must be added a right proportion of hepatic, deobstruent, and nervous
ingredients, all which are to be mixed & digested together for the space of
one month in balneo mariæ, in a sufficient quantity of strong mountain wine,
after which the balsamic liquour is to be strained off, and is to be administred
in the quantity of one or two tablespoonfulls to grown persons, and in that of
-one or two teaspoonfulls to children.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Henderson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
JB LEIGH.
CHRIS HENDERSON. (L.S.)
ROBT WRIGHT.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the day and year last above men-
tioned, the aforesaid Christopher Henderson 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 Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.