A NEW MEDICINE CALLED ESSENCE OF PEPPERMINT, WHICH CONTAINS ALL THE VIRTUES OF THAT PLANT, AND IS AN EXCELLENT REMEDY IN CHOLICKS, RETCHINGS, SICKNESS, AND ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM FLATULENCY, AND IN OTHER DISORDERS THEREIN MENTIONED
Year: 1762

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN JUNIPER, of the Parish of Saint Ann, Soho, in the Liberty of the City of
Westminster, Chymist and Apothecary, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Juniper, did by my Petition humbly represent
unto His Majesty that I was the sole Inventor of "A NEW MEDICINE CALLED
ESSENCE OF PEPPERMINT, WHICH CONTAINS ALL THE VIRTUES OF THAT PLANT, AND
IS AN EXCELLENT REMEDY IN CHOLICKS, RETCHINGS, SICKNESS, AND ALL DISORDERS
ARISING FROM FLATULENCY, AND IN OTHER DISORDERS THEREIN MENTIONED;" and
therefore most humbly prayed His Majesty to grant unto me, my executors.
administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole preparing.
making, and vending the said new-invented medicine called essence of pep-
permint, for the term of fourteen years; and whereas His Majesty was, by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of
November, One thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, graciously pleased to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
sole privilege and authority, that I. my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or

page_text: deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, at all times there-
after, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, my said Invention in that part of His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-on-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in
such manner as to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should seem
meet; in which said Royal Letters Patent there is a proviso requiring me to
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be prepared, by some instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the date thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Juniper, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that the said new-invented medicine called
essence of peppermint is compounded of the several things and prepared in
the manner herein-after mentioned (that is to say):-
Distill well-dried peppermint carefully, so as to prevent an empyreuma, and
collect the oil. The oil thus collected must be purified with alcaline salt put
into a retort with it, digesting and distilling with a gentle heat, adding a proper
quantity of water for that purpose. The oil being again collected, is to be
kept for use. Take of this purified oil of peppermint a sufficient quantity
strongly to impregnate a gallon of pure alcohol; put the mixture in a retort,
and distill with balneo mariæ; to what comes over add the following:-Take
two quarts of pure alcohol, extract of common mint two ounces; digest them
together in a tall bolt head; when cold, filtre for use.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and sixty-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the second day of March, in the
third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said John
Juniper came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein contained, in
form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according to the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and Queen
Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Third day of March, in the third year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third, 1763.