Specification of Christopher Gullett : medicine for gout, &c.

  • Gullett, Christopher.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Christopher Gullett : medicine for gout, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1793 N° 1944. Medicine for Gout, &c. GULLETTS SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Christopher Gullett, of the City of Exeter, Esquire, send greeting. WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster on or about the First day of 5 this present month of April, in the thirty-third year of His Majesty’s reign, reciting that I, the said Christopher Gullett, had represented to His said Majesty that I had found out and discovered 44 A Safe Means and Beneficial Remedy for Expelling the Gout from the Head, Stomach, and Vital Parts of Persons so afflicted, Assuaging the Paroxysms even in the most Dangerous 10 Cases, and afterwards Curing such, as well as other Gouty Persons, without any Medicine, Plaister, or other such Application whatever, either Internal or External,” and had prayed as therein mentioned, His said Majesty did, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, give and grant unto me, the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 15 His especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and them¬ selves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, my executors, administrators or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the 20 term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,