A MEDICINE FOR THE. DESTROYING OF WORMS, WHICH MAY BE ADMINISTERED WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PATIENT
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHING, of Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, Chymist and Apothecary,
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 Twenty-eighth day of June, in the thirty-sixth year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Ching, His especial licence
that I, the said John Ching, during the term of years therein- mentioned,
should lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MEDICINE FOR THE.
DESTROYING OF WORMS, WHICH MAY BE ADMINISTERED WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE PATIENT;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said John Ching, 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 prepared, 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 aud 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
John Ching, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a medicine for
the destroying of worms is described in manner following, that is to say :-
Take panacea mercurii alba, Ib. j; saccharum alba, lb. xj; crocus. ang. 3 ss.;
aqua fontana, lb. j; boil the crocus in the aqua for ten minutes, then strain and beat
the whole into a mass, which mass roll out of an exact thickness, which is of
great importance in regulating the doses; it is, therefore, done by means of a

page_text: brass roller on a particular construction (that is to say), each end of the
roller has an enlargement which keeps the middle part at about an eighth
of an inch from the table, and thus admits the roller to pass over the mass,
forming it of a regular and exact thickness; then cut out the lozenges with
n tin plate instrument similar to what is used for other lozenges, with no
other difference but in its form, this being oval (and others round). The
yellow lozenges thus mado contain exactly one grain of panacea alba to cach
lozenge. The dose, from one lozenge to six the last thing at night, and a like
number of the following brown lozenges the first thing in the morning:-Take
extractum jalapii, lb. iij ss.; panacea mercurii alba, 3 vij; saccharum alba, lb. ix;
aqua fontana, a sufficient quantity to make a mass, which mass roll and cut
out in like manner as directed for the yellow lozenges. Both kinds must be
dried by being exposed to the sun; a few hours will prove sufficient for the
yellow lozenges, but the brown lozenges will require as many days.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ching, have hereunto sot my liand
and seal, this Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six
JOHN CHING. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of July; in tho
thirty-sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third; the said
John Ching came before our said Lord the King in His Chancory, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary. of. England, and so
forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year last above written.