THE OLEUM VITE, OR LADIES' NERVOUS AND CORDIAL DROPS, FOR THE CURE OF NERVOUS COMPLAINTS, WEEKNESS OR CONTRACTIONS OF THE NERVES AND MUSCLES, LOWNESS OR DEJECTION OF SPIRITS, VAPOURS, HISTERICKS, CONVULSIONS, TREMBLINGS, AND PALPITATION OF HEART
Year: 1754

page_text: COLLETT, of the City of London, Practitioner in Physick, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Second, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of December, in the twenty-eighth year of lis
reign, did give & grant unto me, the said Joseph Collett, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I should, during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend my new Invention of "THE OLEUM VITE, OR
LADIES' NERVOUS AND CORDIAL DROPS, FOR THE CURE OF NERVOUS COMPLAINTS,
WEEKNESS OR CONTRACTIONS OF THE NERVES AND MUSCLES, LOWNESS OR DEJECTION
OF SPIRITS, VAPOURS, HISTERICKS, CONVULSIONS, TREMBLINGS, AND PALPITATION OF
HEART," within England and Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Joseph Collett, by some instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within three calendar months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Collett, do hereby declare that the said Oleum Vite, or Ladies'
Nervous and Cordial Drops, is made and prepared in the following manner
(that is to say)
First, put eight gallons of distilled river water, and four gallons of the best
Madeira wine, and six pounds of sal ammoniack into a large vesica well
tinn'd, then put into it equal quantitys of the flower of camomile and rosemary,
the tops of lavender, savory, mint, and sweet marjeram, the seeds of anise
and sweet fennel, well bruised; stir it well together, and stop it down close,
let it stand in a constant heat, about blood warm, for eighteen days; then lute
on the head, and draw off by a gentle fire almost to a dryness; then seperate
the oleaginous part from the other, and put it into a glass vessell with a long
neck, put to it of flowers of benzion two ounces, flowers of sulphur four
ounces; seal it up close, and let it stand in warm sand 'till it comes to a
proper colour and consistance, which is then fit for use. It is to be taken by
children from two drops to eight, and by grown persons from eight drops to
twenty, first dropped on lump or powder sugar, and to be repeated night and
morning till the cure is performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Collett, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the twenty-eighth
year of the reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and fifty-five.
JOSEPH (L.S.) COLLETT.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
RICH ATCHERLEY.
JOHN WEBB ROBINSON.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fourth day of February, in
the year above written, the above-named Joseph Collett came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing afore-
said, and all & every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
said. And the said Writing was stamp'd according to the form of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and
Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Fourth day of February in the year above written.
Inrolled the said Fourth day of February in the year above written.