A CARDIAC AND NERVOUS TINCTURE
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES RYMER,
of Paternoster Row, in the City of London, Surgeon, 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 Twenty-fourth day of July, in the thirty-second year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said James Rymer, His
especial licence that I, the said James Rymer, during the term of years
therein expressed, should, and lawfully might make, usé, exercise, and vend,
within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called.
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
new Invention of "A CARDIAC AND NERVOUS TINCTURE;" in which 'said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James
Rymer, 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 per-
formed, by an instrument in writing, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His Majesty'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, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Rymer, do hereby, in pursuance
of the said proviso, describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is composed in manner following, that is to say:-
I take of the extract of camomile flowers, peppermint, lavender, rosemary,
coltsfoot, dandelion, sage, aniseeds, caraway seed, lesser cardamoms, Russian

page_text: castor, nutmegs, guaiacum, myrrh, sassafras, ginger, Colombo saffron, bark,
Russian rhubarb; snake root, of each one pound; camphor dissolved in rectified
spirit of wine, one pound; of Madeira wine and the best French brandy, of
each ten gallons. I digest them for one month, and then strain them; lastly,
I put the tincture into an apparatus, and impregnate it strongly with the aerial
acid.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Rymer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of August, in the thirty-second
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 so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-two.
Sealed and delivered by the above-named
James Rymer (being first duly
stamped), in the presence of us,
JOHN DAVIES.
THO. LLOYD.
JAS RYMER. (L.S.)
Majesty King George the Third,
Lord the King in His Chancery,
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
in the thirty-second year of the reign of His
the said James Rymer came before our said
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the
reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of August, in the year above written.