A NEW METHOD, NEVER BEFORE USED, OF MAKING CURBANT DROPS AND LOZENGES OF FRUITS, WHICH BEING OF GREAT EFFICACY IN THE CURE OF SORE THROATS, OBSTINATE COUGHS, AND HOARSENESSES, WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS
Year: 1773

page_text: IRWIN'S SPECIFICATION.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
IRWIN, of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Confectioner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the 'Fifth day of March, in the thirteenth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said James Irwin, His especial licence,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James Irwin, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,. use, exercisc, and
vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A NEW METHOD, NEVER BEFORE USED, OF MAKING CURBANT DROPS AND LOZENGES
OF FRUITS, WHICH BEING OF GREAT EFFICACY IN THE CURE OF SORE THROATS,
OBSTINATE COUGHS, AND HOARSENESSES, WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO HIS
MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging-n
me, the said James Irwin, under my hand and seal,' to cause a
particular description of the nature of my 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 kalender months next and immediately 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 proviso, I, the said
James Irwin, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New Method,
never before used, of Making Black Currant Drops and Lozenges of Fruits,
which being of great Efficacy in the Cure of Sore Throats, Obstinate Coughs,

page_text: and Hoarsenesses, will be of great Benefit to His Majesty's Subjects, is
performed in the manner following, that is to say:-
Buy the black currants when ripe; pull them off the storks; put them into
a pan that is not coppery, with very little water; then put them upon the fire,
and let them boil ten minutes, or thereabout, but be sure to keep stirring of
them all the time; then take them off the fire, and strain them through a
coarse hair sieve, or through a fine cane sieve, and be sure to keep the seed
from going through the sieve; then put them upon the fire again, and put
about two ounces of sugar to a pound of the currants, and boil them for a long
time till you think they will be stiff enough, when cold, to put upon pewter
plates; then put them into a drying stove, and when dry on one side turn them
on clean plates; when thorough dry on both sides, cut it out in square pieces.
And this is the new method for making the lozenges and drops, only the drops
are dropped with a spoon in the room of cutting.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Irwin, have hereunto sett my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the thirteenth 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 in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-
.three.
Inrolled the aforesaid Nineteenth day of April, in the year above said.