Specification of Francis Spilsbury : medical drops.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Francis Spilsbury : medical drops. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medical Drops. SPILSBURY’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Francis Spilsbury, of Soho Square, in the Parish of Saint Ann, within the Liberty of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Chymist, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His 5 Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the thirty-second year of His reign, did give unto me, the said Francis Spilsbury, His especial license that I, the said Francis Spilsbury, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick- 10 upon-Tweed, my Invention of “A Certain Medicine called Spilsbury’s Anti¬ scorbutic Drops, which has proved an Efficacious Remedy for Eradicating the most Inveterate Scorbutic Disorders in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Francis Spilsbury, to cause a parti¬ cular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the 15 same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said 20 Francis Spilsbury, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of antiscorbutic drops, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is as follows, that is to say :— The said Invention consists and is made of the following ingredients; viz1. : pulv. antimon., hydra, muriat., antimon. muriat., canthar., trifol. palud., al. socot.,