AN ESSENCE OF PEARL AND PEARL DENTIPRICE
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACOB
HEMET, of the Parish of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, Dentist,
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 the
Twenty-second day of January, in the thirteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Jacob Hemet, His especial licence, that I, the
said Jacob Hemet, during the terin of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of preparing "AN ESSENCE OF PEARL AND
PEARL DENTIPRICE," which by repeated experience I have found to be extremely
effectual in preserving the teeth and gums, and remedying the disorders to
which they are subject; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
provisoe obliging' me, the said Jacob Hemet," under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how
the same is to be prepared, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months 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 provisoe, I, the said
Jacob Hemet, do hereby declare that my said Invention of preparing an
Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice is described in the manner following
(that is to say):-

page_text: The finest and purest electrum, one part; the chemical alcohol, eight parts;
the sweet assa, one quarter part; the native mineral alkali, one part; the
odoriferous particles of the flowers of oranges and roses, drawn by the aqueous
menstruum, and combined therewith, twenty-four parts; the essential and
vegetable salt, one part; the vitrifiable earth, quite pure, two parts; the Floren-.
tine orrice root, four parts; the fruit of the aromatick aracus, one part; extract
by distillation and digestion a tincture from these ingredients that are proper
for that purpose, incorporate that tincture with the other fluid parts, which
makes the essence of pearl; and let the insoluble particles of those articles that
are not soluble be thoroughly incorporated together, and add to them the most
aromatick particles of the other ingredients which you have before extracted,
and it will make the pearl dentifrice.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Hemet, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-three.
JACOB HEMET. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of April,
in the year above said, the aforesaid Jacob Hemet came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King & Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the year above said.. …