DOCTOR JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS,
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
JAMES, of Bruton Street, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor in Physick,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Robert James, did by my petition humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that after
much application and expence I had invented a certain medicine called
"DOCTOR JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS, BEING A SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISMS
WHETHER SEATED EXTERNALLY OR INTERNALLY, FOR INDIGESTIONS, CRUDITIES OF THE
STOMACH FROM INTEMPERANCE, Loss OP APPETITE, HABITUAL COSTIVENESS, GIDDI-
NESS IN THE HEAD, TROUBLESOME FLATULENCIES IN THE STOMACH AND BOWELS,
AND CHOLICKS THENCE ARISING, AS ALSO FOR GOUTY HABITS WHERE THE STOMACH
AND HEAD ARE AFFECTED, AND FOR ALL KINDS OF BILIOUS DISORDERS, LOWNESS OF
SPIRITS, AND NERVOUS COMPLAINTS, AS WELL AS IN THOSE DISORDERS OCCASIONED BY
A SEDENTARY LIFE," I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that he
would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my
said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term
of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided,
His said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to my request, and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of November in the Fifteenth

page_text: year of His reign, of his especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer
motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors; did give and grant unto
me, the said Robert James, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Robert James, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as I, the said Robert James, my executors, admi-
nistrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the
said Robert James, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Robert James, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should and might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, renewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention for and during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Robert James, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and provided, in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
that if I, the said Robert James, should not particularly describe and ascertaine
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
any thing therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise not-
withstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert James, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars
following (that is to say);-

page_text: The analeptic pills are made by mixing equal parts of the pill rufi, gum
ammoniacum, and the fever powder. The two former are first to be placed
in a large cave underground furnished with the conductors of electrical fire,
which will dissolve the ingredients. When they are so dissolved they are to
be mixed with the powder, and made into pills with a solution of gum
arabick.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert James, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and in the
fifteenth 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 BE IT REMEMBERED that the Twenty-fourth day of January,
in the year above written, the aforesaid Robert James came before the said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified in form above written.
And also the said instrument 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, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of January in the year above written.