A BALSAM FOR THE CURE OF AND BRINGING AWAY SAND AND GRAVEL LODGED IN THE BLADDER AND KIDNEYS, THE CURE OF GREEN WOUNDS, AND SEVERAL OTHER DISORDERS INCIDENT TO HUMANE NATURE
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
APPLEBY, of Knutsford, in the County of Chester, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Appleby, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty that I had, after great study
and expence invented and prepared "A BALSAM FOR THE CURE OF AND BRINGING
AWAY SAND AND GRAVEL LODGED IN THE BLADDER AND KIDNEYS, THE CURE OF
GREEN WOUNDS, AND SEVERAL OTHER DISORDERS INCIDENT TO HUMANE NATURE,"
and that I was apprehensive that the said balsam would be of universal use
and benefit to His said Majesty's subjects, that the said balsam was intirely
new, of my own invention, and was never made publick before, to my know-
ledge or belief, I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty 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 Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years,
pursuant 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
Thirteenth day of August, in the eighth 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 Thomas Appleby, my

page_text: executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Appleby, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves,
or by mine and our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Appleby, my executors, administrators, 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, excrcise, and vend my said Invention in that part
of His Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the
said Thomas Appleby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Thomas Appleby,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accrewing, 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Appleby, 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 Thomas Appleby, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be prepared, 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, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing, 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 Thomas Appleby, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the aforesaid
Invention, and declare that the same is to be prepared in manner following
(that is to say)-
R. Spiritus vinous rectificatus, one gallon; gum guaiac., one pound;
myrrha, two ounces; bals. tolu and storax, each four ounces; benzione and
Pareira brava, each six ounces; mastiche, one ounce; rad. anchuse, one

page_text: ounce and an half; saffron, balf an ounce. Digest in a sand heat nine days;
then pour off the liquor for use. A teaspoonful to be taken three times a day
in a glass of white wine.
For a wound-Drop twenty drops upon lint, and bind it up; repeat it
every twenty-four hours till healed.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-second day of August, in the eighth year of the reign of
our said 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 in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-eight.
SAM BLACKSHAW.
BIGOE HENZELL,
Clerk to Henry Rooke, Esq'.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, the
aforesaid Thomas Appleby, came before our 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
Instrument aforesaid 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 day and year last above written.