A VERY EXCELLENT REMEDY FOR STRAINS, BRUISES, WOUNDS, AND MANY OTHER COMPLAINTS, CALLED BY ME SAMARITAN WATER
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GREENOUGH, of Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, 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
the Eighth day of January, in the nineteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said: Thomas Greenough, His especial licence that I,
the said Thomas Greenough, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A VERY
EXCELLENT REMEDY FOR STRAINS, BRUISES, WOUNDS, AND MANY OTHER COMPLAINTS,
CALLED BY ME SAMARITAN WATER;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a provisoe obliging me, the said Thomas Greenough, 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 calender 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
Thomas Greenough, do hereby declare that my said Invention of A very
excellent Remedy for Strains, Bruises, Wounds, and many other Complaints,
called by me Samaritan Water, is described in the manner following (that
is to say):
Put into a glass retort, that has an opening of about half an inch diameter
at the top, with a glass stopper fitted therein, twenty pounds weight of

page_text: regenerated tartar; place the retort in a sand furnace, and lute on to the neck
of it a proper receiver; then pour upon the regenerated tartar ten pounds
of the concentrated acid of sulphur through the opening at the top of the
retort. Make under it a small fire, so as to give but a very gentle heat, for
too strong a fire will burst the retort; increase it gradually to give a
heat equal to one hundred and twenty degrees of Farenheit's thermometer;
keep it to that point, but no higher, till nothing further can be drawn
over. Then take eight pounds of the liquor that has come over into the
receiver, and after putting it into a vessel proper for digestion, add to it eight
ounces of pure camphor; digest these together in a digesting furnace, with a
heat never exceeding ninety degrees, till the liquor is fully saturated with the
camphor. Then add to it four ounces of the true saffron crocus, not the
bastard kind; continue the digestion a little longer, that is, as long as is
sufficient to extract the fine volatile anodine parts of it, but not the groser,
which a very short time will do; then let the liquor thus impregnated be
poured off and stand for seven days without shaking, that all the particles not
thoroughly united may subside, after which let the clear impregnated liquor
be put into a proper vessel; add to it four pounds of a mettalick matter (com-
posed of sixteen parts of pure lead and one part of pure copper, perfectly freed
from all arsenical particles, melted together), and let the whole be digested
with a moderate heat till the liquor is intirely saturated with the mettallick
matter, which will then be compleated, and, when properly diluted) fit for
use.