A CERTAIN MEDICINE CALLED FLOGISTICAL AND FIXED EARTH OF MARS, OR POWDER OF MARS
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, INNOCENZO
DELLA LENA, of Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Physic and
Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Second day of August, in the fortieth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Innocenzo della Leña, His especial licence,
that I, the said Innocenzo della Lena, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN
MEDICINE CALLED FLOGISTICAL AND FIXED EARTH OF MARS, OR POWDER OF MARS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, 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 calendar 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:
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Innocenzo della Lena, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
in manner following, that is to say
Take mineral earth of iron four parts, of copper two parts, of native anti-
mony two and a half parts, and of mineral salt two parts; put all this in

page_text: an earthen vessel unvarnished, and put together as much of urine as to cover the
matters four inches over, after which shut hermetically the vessel, and put it
under ground at the deepness of two feet and a half diameter; this must be a
place where the rays of the sun or rain cannot approach, where it must be interred
more than forty days; after this time, taking out the vessel, all the matter is to
be exposed in large dishes to the rays of the sun, keeping it from the rain and
excessive warmth, covering the dishes or removing them, for the rain destroys
the operation. After eight days of this exposition it will be necessary to wash
all the matter with distilled water three or four different times in three or four
days, taking out that water and covering it in the meanwhile with half water
and half urine, repeating the same thing. After this operation put again the
matter in the same vessel to be again interred, as at first, thirty days, after
which time it is to be washed by a part of urine and three fourths of distilled
water four times, but with the interval of ten or twelve days between each
time, after which it is replaced in the same vessel and interred twenty days,
after which time the matter is to be washed with distilled water four times
every fifteen days, being always exposed to the sun, and preserving it from the
rain, which dissolves in a moment the native salt of the remedy.
In witness whereof, I, the said Innocenzo della Lena, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of August, One thousand
eight hundred.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred.