A TINCTURE FOR THE CURE OR RELIEF OF COUGHS, ASTHMAS, AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND CHEST
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TOWERS, of Little Warner Street, Cold Bath Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing late at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of July, in the fifty-sixth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Towers, His special licence, that I, the said John Towers, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Towers, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A TINCTURE
FOR THE CURE OR RELIEF OF COUGHS, ASTHMAS, AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE
LUNGS AND CHEST;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said John Towers, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, and to cause the
same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Towers, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be prepared, is described and ascertained in
the following explanation thereof, that is to say :-
I take of the fluid called spirit of wine, highly rectified, any quantity; of
nitrous acid in the proportion of one pound avoirdupois to every gallon of the
spirit, and of refined white sugar, as much by weight as the nitrous acid; I
distil these from a stoneware vessel, in a sand heat, through a stoneware
condenser into a glass receiver, till all the ethereous spirit be obtained; I
purify this product by means of a sufficient quantity of vegetable alkali and
redistillation in similar ssels. I take of the same fluid called spirit of wine,
and of concentrated sulphuric acid, equal weights, and distil these in a sand
heat, from a glass or stoneware vessel, into a glass receiver; I carefully
collect the light ethereous spirit, and mix the two products in the proportion
of fourteen parts of the former to one of the latter; I then add one part of
clear water to four parts of the mixture above described; to every pound and
four ounces, apothecaries' weight, of this compound spirit (which I put into a
glass bottle that will contain about one-third more), I add ninety-six grains of
bruised ipecacuanha, of dried squill. and unstrained storax, sixty-four grains
each, of benzoic acid thirty-two grains, of opium twenty-four grains, ten drops
of essential oil of sassafras, and ten grains of hay saffron; I let these digest for
ten days, (the neck of the bottle being carefully corked and secured,) and
agitate them three or four times a day, and lastly I strain the whole through
paper.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Towers, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
Ona thousand oight hundred and sixtoon.