A PURGING PASTE FOR HORSES AND DOGS, BEING A PRIMARY MEDICINE FOR ALL DISEASES INCIDENT TO EACH, AND CALCULATED FOR ALL AGES AND SIZES OF BOTH THE ANIMALS
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WATSON, of the City of Norwich, Farrier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date the Twelfth day of September, in the twenty-third year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Watson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Watson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Watson, 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, ex-
ercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven-
tion of "A PURGING PASTE FOR HORSES AND DOGS, BEING A PRIMARY MEDICINE
FOR ALL DISEASES INCIDENT TO EACH, AND CALCULATED FOR ALL AGES AND SIZES OF
BOTH THE ANIMALS," in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Watson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas, my executors, adminis-
irators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit,

page_text: benefit, commodity and advantage from time to time coming, growing.
accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term
of
years 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 Thomas Watson, 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 there is contained
proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Watson, 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 four calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and
by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Watson, do hereby declare that the said Invention consists and is
made and performed in the following manner (videlicet):-
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Take of the root of jalop, cut thin, three pounds; of pearl ashes, two pounds;
of water, four gallons: let those stand together for a fortnight. Then boil this
mixture for ten or twelve hours, very slowly, until it comes to three quarts
only when strained off; then add to these, four pounds of salt of tartar, three
pounds of castor oil, and twenty pounds of Barbadoes aloes which have been
well cleansed from all impurities: boil all these together in an iron pan till
the mixture is of a proper consistance. It will keep for any length of time
without diminishing its virtue. This paste may be given with the greatest
safety. To purge a full-grown horse may be administered from eight to
twelve drachms; to a two-years old horse, give six drachms; to a horse one
year old give four drachms; and to a colt of half a year old give two drachms.
.It is an excellent alterative given in small quantities of two or three drachms
every day for ten days together, or as occasion requires. It may be given
when the horse is at grass without danger, and very few horses will want above
eight or nine drams for a strong purge. Give to an hound, dog, pointer, or
large spaniel, for a strong purge, from one drachm to two and an-half d°; but
as dogs are subject to cast it up if too much is given at once, give one drachm
only for three or four days together. This is much the best way of cleansing
dogs, and sometimes the dog will want but one dose. For dogs of a smaller
size than those above mentioned give a less dose in proportion to the con-

page_text: stitution of the animal. This paste is to be given in the beging of all disorders
ncident to both horses and dogs.
This a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and of the
manner in which I do use or perform the same.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett ny hand and seal, this Twenty-
fifth day of November, in the twenty-fourth 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 in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
THOS WATSON. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of November,
n the year above written, the aforesaid Thomas Watson 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 the form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
enor of the Statute in that case maile and provided.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of December, in the year above written.