AN OINTMENT, WHICH IS A GRAND ANTEDOTE FOR THE ITCH, AND ALL SCORBUTIC HUMOURS, BEING A SOVEREIGN AND EFFICACIOUS REMEDY THAT NEVER FAILS FOR ALL ERUPTIONS AND CUTANEOUS DISORDERS, WITHOUT CONFINEMENT, DAUBING, OR THE LEAST OFFENSIVE SMELL, THE APPLICATION BEING ONLY TO THE PALMS OF THE HANDS
Year: 1760

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANN PIKE,
Wife of Thomas Pike, of Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Yeoman, send
greeting.
"
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by IIis
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the thirty-third year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Ann Pike, Ilis especial licence
that I, the said Ann Pike, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations in America, my Invention of AN OINTMENT, WHICH IS A GRAND
ANTEDOTE FOR THE ITCH, AND ALL SCORBUTIC HUMOURS, BEING A SOVEREIGN
AND EFFICACIOUS REMEDY THAT NEVER FAILS FOR ALL ERUPTIONS AND CUTANEOUS
DISORDERS, WITHOUT CONFINEMENT, DAUBING, OR THE LEAST OFFENSIVE SMELL,
THE APPLICATION BEING ONLY TO THE PALMS OF THE HANDS;" in which said
Letters l'atent there is contained a provisoe, obliging me, the said Ann Pike,
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of
the said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months 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 in compliance with the said provisoc, I, the said
Ann Pike, do hereby declare that my said Invention, of an ointment, which is
a grand antedote for the itch, and all scorbutic humours, being a sovereign
and efficacious remedy that never fails for all eruptions and cutaneous dis-
orders, without confinement, daubing, or the least offensive smell, the application
being only to the palms of the hands, is to be performed in the manner following,
that is to say:-
First Preparation.-Take one pound of prepared pomatum with one ounce
of calomel, and mix them well together, and let them stand three days. Take
likewise a pound of fine hogs lard with two ounces of Jesuits bark, and mix
them well together, and let it stand three days; then mix these two pre-
parations together. In the above preparation, kill three ounces of quicksilver,
and mix it every day for a week.
After that, put all
Second Preparation.-Take one pound of decr suet, and mix two ounces
of turbith mineral, and let it stand three days. Take likewise another pound
of lard, and in it put two ounces of powder of tuttey, one ounce of flower of
brimstone; mix them well, and let them stand three days.
the above preparations together in an iron pot on purpose, and let it be kept
where it may undergo a gentle infusion in a warm place, with dung; keep
stirring all these mixtures once a day for a week, and to these add an
ounce of wood sut, and the melecine is compleat; and rub the quantity of a
pea every night, for a fortnight, between the palms of the hands.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal. the Third
Inrolled the Tenth day of April, in the year above written.