NEW INVENTED POWDERS, CALLED ANTI-EPILEPTIC POWDERS, WHICH ARE AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR APPOPLEXIES, EPILEPSYS, CONVULSIONS, HYSTEREKS, VAPOURS, PARALATICKS, LEGARTHYS, TREM- BLINGS, FAINTINGS, SWIMMINGS IN THE HEAD, PAINS IN THE STOMACH, WORMS, WEAKNESS IN THE NERVES, RETENTION OF URINE, WANT OF APPETITE, LOWNESS OF SPIRITS, STRENGTHENS THE MEMORY, SWEETENS AND THINS THE BLOOD, AND MAY BE TAKEN WITH THE UTMOST SAPETY AT ALL TIMES BY PERSONS OF EITHER SEX, AND YOUNG CHILDREN MAY TAKE IT WITHIN THE MONTH
Year: 1755

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LOWTHER, of Great Kerby Street, in the Parish of Saint Andrew's, Holborn,
in the City of London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth
day of June, in the twenty-eighth year of His said Majesty's reign, did give
and grant to me, the said William Lowther, His special licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said William Lowther, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
years therein expressed, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His
said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED POWDERS, CALLED
ANTI-EPILEPTIC POWDERS, WHICH ARE AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR APPOPLEXIES,
EPILEPSYS, CONVULSIONS, HYSTEREKS, VAPOURS, PARALATICKS, LEGARTHYS, TREM-
BLINGS, FAINTINGS, SWIMMINGS IN THE HEAD, PAINS IN THE STOMACH, WORMS,
WEAKNESS IN THE NERVES, RETENTION OF URINE, WANT OF APPETITE, LOWNESS OF
SPIRITS, STRENGTHENS THE MEMORY, SWEETENS AND THINS THE BLOOD, AND MAY BE
TAKEN WITH THE UTMOST SAPETY AT ALL TIMES BY PERSONS OF EITHER SEX, AND
YOUNG CHILDREN MAY TAKE IT WITHIN THE MONTH;" in which said recited Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Lowther, by
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of the said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Lowther, do hereby declare that my said new Invention is composed
and prepared of the several particulars, and in manner following (that is to
say) Pulvis holly, pulvis rorismarino, pulvis humani cranum, pulvis elebore,
pulvis peonæ, pulvis nitræ, pulvis virmis, and foals bitt, to be made into a fine
powder, and mixed together for use.
In witness whereof, I, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentyeth
day of September, in the year of our Lord God One thousand seven
hundred and fifty-five.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-third day of September,
in the year last above written, the aforesaid William Lowther came before
the said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above-
written Instrument, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form abovesaid. And also the Instrument 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, & so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year abovesaid.