A SPECIFIC POWDER WHICH IS A SPEEDY AND EFFECTUAL CURE FOR THE RHEUMATISM, AND & PERFECT EASE AND RELIEF, IF HOT A CERTAIN AND EFFECTUAL CURE, FOR THE GOUT, AS MANY OF HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS HATH ALREADY EXPERIENCED, AND WHICH WOULD BE GREATLY ADVANTAGEOUS TO GREAT NUMBERS MORE OF HIS MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS IN THOSE ACUTE DISTEMPERS
Year: 1742

page_text: HAYWARD'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
HAYWARD, of the City of Bristol, Apothecary, send greeting.
WHEREAS His Sacred Majesty King George the Second, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, by His Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of May, in the fifteenth year of His
reign, reciting, that whereas the said Robert Hayward had by his Petition
humbly represented unto His Majesty that he had, by much study, application,
and expence, found out and discovered "A SPECIFIC POWDER WHICH IS A SPEEDY
AND EFFECTUAL CURE FOR THE RHEUMATISM, AND & PERFECT EASE AND RELIEF, IF
HOT A CERTAIN AND EFFECTUAL CURE, FOR THE GOUT, AS MANY OF HIS MAJESTY'S
SUBJECTS HATH ALREADY EXPERIENCED, AND WHICH WOULD BE GREATLY ADVANTAGEOUS
TO GREAT NUMBERS MORE OF HIS MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS IN THOSE ACUTE DISTEMPERS;"
His Majesty therefore did, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer
motion, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Hayward, my executors,
administrators, and assignes, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, to make, 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, to hold to me, the said Robert Hayward, my
executors, administrators, and assignes, for the term of fourteen years from the
date of the said Letters Patent; in which Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Robert Hayward, should not particularly describe and ascer-

page_text: tain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters
Patent should cease and become void, as by the said Letters Patent (relation
thereunto being had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Robert Hayward, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
as follows (that is to say) :-
My said specifick powder is a preparation of nitre and antimony, intimately
mixt by grinding it in a mortar for the space of six or seven hours, or till
such time as no shining particles of the antimony is apparent; and then is to
be administred to the patient, if a grown person, twenty-seven grains for one
dose, and so in proportion to persons of more tender years, and operates by a
diophoresis or sweating of the patient, and at the same time attenuates the
blood and juices, by which means the morbifick or gouty humour is discharged.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Hayward, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this First day of July, One thousand seven hundred
and forty-two, and in the Sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Second, by the grace of God of Great Britain
ROBERT HAY
ARD.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the abovesaid First day of July, the
before-named Robert Hayward came before our Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the abovesaid Writing, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above said. And also the said Writing
was stamped according to the form of the Statute made and provided in the
Sixth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
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