A NEW MEDICINAL COMPOSITION, CALLED THE STOMACH PILL, WHOSE POWER FAR EXCEEDS THAT OF ANY MEDICINE HITHERTO DISCOVERED IN CURING ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELLS, WHERE THERE IS A DEFICIENCY OF BILE AND NO INPLAMATION
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
FORDYCE, of the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS, by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of July last, reciting
that I, the said William Fordyce, had, by my Petition, humbly represented
unto His Majesty that, by much labour, study, and application in trying experi-
ments, I had found out and invented "A NEW MEDICINAL COMPOSITION, CALLED
THE STOMACH PILL, WHOSE POWER FAR EXCEEDS THAT OF ANY MEDICINE HITHERTO
DISCOVERED IN CURING ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELLS, WHERE
THERE IS A DEFICIENCY OF BILE AND NO INPLAMATION;" and that in regard that I
had been at great trouble and expence in bringing the same to perfection, I
had prayed His said Majesty would be pleased to grant unto me, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's Royal Letters Patent,
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use and benefit of my said
Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Majestie's Planta-
tions and Colonies abroad, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the
Statute in that case made and provided; His Majesty did therefore, of His
especial grace, give and grant unto me, the said William Fordyce, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of them, by

page_text: myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times then-
after during the term of years therein expressed, should and might make, use,
and vend my said Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His
Majestie's Plantations and Colonies abroad, in such manner as I, my exors,
adiñiors, or assigns, should deem meet, and that I, my exors, adiñiors, and
assigns, should have and enjoy the whole profitt, benefit, and advantage, arising
by reason of the said Invention, for the term of years therein mentioned, to
hold and enjoy the said license, priviledges, and advantages thereby granted
unto me, my exors, adñors, and assigns, for the full end and term of fourteen
years from the date of the said Letters Patent from thence next ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; and to the end that I, my exors, adíñors, and assigns, may have and
enjoy the full benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said Invention, His
said Majesty did thereby require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in the Plantations
and Colonies abroad, that during the continuance of the said term of fourteen
years thereby granted, they did, neither directly or indirectly, make, use, or put
in practice the said Invention, or counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same,
without the licence or consent of me, the said William Fordyce, my exors,
adiňors, or assigns, in writing under my hand and seal first had and obtained;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that if I, the said William
Fordyce, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next ensuing the date
of the said Letters Patent, that the said Letters Patent should cease, deter-
mine, and become absolutely void, as in and by the said recited Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said
William Fordyce, in pursuance of the above-recited provisoc, and in com-
plyance therewith, do, by these Presents, particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared,
in the words following, that is to say:-
Take of rhubarb root, extract of flowers of chamomile, and of gum myrrh,
of each one drachm; of aloe of succotra, half a drachm; of grains of paradise

page_text: and oil of chamomile, of each half a scruple; of syrup of sugar, enough to
make it into a mass.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Fordyce, have to this present
Instrument in writing set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of Nevem-
ber, in the 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, &c., and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.
Cl. at the Inrollm' Office, Chancery Lane.
BLISSETT WOODDESON,
Dove Cort, Lombard Street, London.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Tenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord 1763, the aforesaid William Fordyce came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indre aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written. And
also the Indre aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth.