Specification of William Sims : compound extract for the cure of deafness.

  • Sims, William.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Specification of William Sims : compound extract for the cure of deafness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sims* New Compound Extract for the Cure of Deafness. quarter of a pound of ground ivy, two ounces of rosemary, and a quarter of a pound of pennyroyal, together with one ounce of brewers’ yeast; set this liquor and ingredients to ferment at a temperature of about 60° Fahrenheit for about three days. Put the fermented liquor and ingredients in the above 5 proportions or thereabouts in the body of a still, and apply gentle heat, drawing over about fifteen gallons out of every twenty gallons contained in the still. The compound extract thus obtained is employed for the cure of deafness, by dropping four or five drops into each ear (every night and morning) of any person afflicted with deafness, temporary or otherwise, until the sense of hearing is 10 restored. A beneficial result has hitherto invariably attended the use of this remedy. In witness whereof, I, the said William Sims, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. 15 WILLIAM SIMS, (l.s.) Witness, William Povey Sims. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1863.