A. NEW COMPOUND MEDICINAL POWDER, TO BE USED IN THE NATURE OF AND WHICH I CALLED MY MEDICINAL SNUFF, AND WHICH I HAD WITH GREAT LABOUR, INDUSTRY, APPLICATION, STUDY, AND AT A GREAT EXPENCE, BROUGHT TO A VERY SURPRIZING DEGREE OF PERFECTION IN THE CURE OF CAPITAL DISORDERS OF THE HYPOCONDRIAC AND MELANCHOLLY KIND, AS ALSO OF IMPOSTURATIOUS AGUES IN THE HEAD,
Year: 1749

page_text: SMITH'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SMITH, Leather Seller and Citizen of London, now dwelling in the Parish of
Christ Church, Spittlefields, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Smith, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto. His most Excellent Majesty King Georgo the Second, that I was the
sole Inventor of "A. NEW COMPOUND MEDICINAL POWDER, TO BE USED IN THE
NATURE OF AND WHICH I CALLED MY MEDICINAL SNUFF, AND WHICH I HAD WITH
GREAT LABOUR, INDUSTRY, APPLICATION, STUDY, AND AT A GREAT EXPENCE, BROUGHT
TO A VERY SURPRIZING DEGREE OF PERFECTION IN THE CURE OF CAPITAL DISORDERS
OF THE HYPOCONDRIAC AND MELANCHOLLY KIND, AS ALSO OF IMPOSTURATIOUS AGUES
IN THE HEAD, EJECTION OF POLYPUSSES, AND VARIOUS OTHER AND SIMILAR INDIS-
POSITIONS, AS HAD BEEN DULY PROVED BY A VARIETY OF SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS,
AND WHICH I WAS READY TO MAKE APPEAR BY UNEXCEPTIONABLE EVIDENCE WHEN
CALLED UPON BY AUTHORITY THERETO;" His Majesty therefore, by His Letters
Patent. under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Sixth day
of December, in the twenty-third year of His reign, of His especial grace,
certain knowledge, and meer motion, did give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns,. His especial licence,
:full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Smith, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and
themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Thomas Smith, my exors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, for and during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and might lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Thomas Smith, should seem meet; in which said Letters

page_text: Patent is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said Thomas Smith, by a
writing under my hand and seal, duly to bo inrolled within three kalendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
what manner the same is to be performed, as by the said Letters Patent
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Smith, do hereby declare that my said Invention of the medicinal
snuff before expressed is composed of the several materials or ingredients
following, to wit:—
Take two ounces of knotted margerum, six ounces of marum, and two
ounces of acrimony, one pound of asser tobacco, and two ounces of balm,
and one ounce of lily comvally; let them be all well pulverized in a mortar
together, then sifted fine off, so as to be made snuff; then take one tea-
spoonful struck for a dose up the nose as snuff going to bed, and repeated
every six days as long as the patient sees convenient.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, and in the twenty-third
year of the reign of King George the Second.