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

  • Gullett, Christopher.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Christopher Gullett : medicine for gout, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gullett's Medicine for Gout, Qc. and vend my said Invention within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon- Tweed, in such manner as to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, in my or their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and 5 lawfully might have, hold, and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein expressed, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license, powers, privileges, and advan¬ tages, under me, the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, 10 and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided, and containing such farther and other grants, privileges, clauses, and powers, for me, the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, and 15 assigns, having and enjoying the full benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said Invention, according to His Majesty’s gracious intention therein declared, as are therein-after mentioned and expressed, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully appear; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I should not 20 describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should cease, 25 determine, and become void. HOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Gullett, in compliance with the said last-recited provisoe, do hereby describe, specify, and ascertain the nature of my said Invention to be, and do hereby declare that my Safe Means and Beneficial Remedy for Expelling the Gout from the Head, Stomach, and 30 Vital Parts of Persons so afflicted, and Assuaging the Paroxysms even in the most Dangerous Cases, as herein-before described, were and are the use and application of lightning (otherwise called electrical fluid or electricity), which, for this hitherto-deemed incurable disorder, and in those cases I pronounce to be a specific, by the due use and proper application of which the said persons so 35 afflicted, as well as other gouty persons, may be safely, easily, and expeditiously cured, without any medicine, plaister, or other such application whatever, either internal or external. And here the said Specification might end, and I might go so far as to say doth end. But for the more particularly describing haw