A BOTANICAL OR MEDICINAL PREPARATION, BEING A REMEDY FOR GRAVEL AND STONY CONCRETIONS, WHICH I USUALLY DENOMINATE MUCILAGE OF MARSHMALLOWS
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
FELTON, late of Berwick Street, in the Parish of St. Ann, Soho, but now
of Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Botanist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of December,
in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Felton, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Samuel Felton, my exors, adñors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or discovery of "A BOTANICAL OR MEDICINAL
PREPARATION, BEING A REMEDY FOR GRAVEL AND STONY CONCRETIONS, WHICH I
USUALLY DENOMINATE MUCILAGE OF MARSHMALLOWS;'" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel Felton, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calender month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Felton, do hereby declare that my
said Invention of making or composing the said botanical preparation, called by
me mucilage of marshmallows, being a remedy for gravel and stony concretions,
is made and prepared with and from the following flowers, roots, leaves, seeds,
fruits, berry, and gum.-Take a quarter of a sheet of brown paper and form it
into a square bag with nearly the same tin and wood instrument or mould which
cocoa makers use; 1st, into this bag put a few of the flowers of the marshmallows,
just sufficient to cover the bottom of the bag; 2nd, on these flowers put a
small quantity of the roots of the marshmallow, sliced with a knife or bruised
in a mortar, namely, a sufficient quantity to form a thin layer of nearly an inch
in thickness when pressed down close; 3d, on this last layer put in a quantity
of the leaves of the marshmallow sufficient to form a layer of about half an
inch in thickness when pressed down close; 4th, on this last layer put in a
small quantity (ad libitum) of English liquorice root, cut into thin slices and
dried; 5th, over this last layer throw in the quantity of a common sized tea
cup, three parts filled with dancus sylvestris, and the remaining fourth part
with linseed; 6th, on this last layer put in a cake formed nearly into the shape
and thickness of a large Turkey fig, and composed of the following ingredients,
namely, to one pound of figs add a quarter of a 'pound of raisins of the sun,
a quarter of a pound of juniper berries, one ounce of powdered gum arabic,
and half an ounce of powdered usa ursi; mix and pound these in a mortar, and
form it into cakes; 7th, and on the above throw in a small quantity of the com
mon mallow blooms, just sufficient to cover the above cake of figs, &c. Having
pressed the above seven layers tightly down, then on the above last-mentioned
layer of the common mallow blooms put in for the second time the same alternate
layers of the roots of marshmallow, the leaves of marshmallow, liquorice root,
laneus sylvestris mixed with linseed, the cake composed of figs, &c., and the
layer of common mallow blooms (omitting only the flowers of the marshmallow)
and in the same quantity as above directed. Having pressed these last six layers
tightly down, then again for the third time throw in the same alternate six
layers, and in the same quantity as last above mentioned, and having pressed
them down tightly then throw in for the fourth time the same alternate six
layers except the layer of common mallow blooms, and in its stead throw in a
small quantity or a thin layer of the flowers of the marshmallow, press them
tightly down and tie up the bag.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Felton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and wine.
S. FELION. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord 1809, the aforesaid Samuel Felton came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord 1809, the aforesaid Samuel Felton came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and nine.