Specification of Thomas Williams : medicine.

  • Williams, Thomas.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Williams : medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pechell. 2 A.D. 1765.—N° 835. Williams Medicine. Presents do particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of my said Invention, and the manner the same is to be prepared, which is in the words and terms following (that is to say) :— Take a quantity of the flowers fresh prepared, of a white colour and fragrant flavour, by a chymical process, from the best East India gum benzoin; digest 5 them, with the finest saffron and the purest parts of the best American pines, in a spirituous menstruum for some time with a proper degree of heat; and, lastly, purify, secundum artem, for use. The above is a just account of the i» preparation of the said medicine, which has been for some time and is now administred by me, in private practice as well as in publick, for diseases of the 10 lungs, such as coughs, asthmas, and consumptions, or decays of the body, with amazing success, it being far superior in virtue, richness, and elegance, to any medicine of the kind before published by any other person or persons whatsoever, as experience has confirmed; and I do hereby further declare that the foregoing assertions are strictly true. 15 In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Williams, have to these Presents set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of March, in the sixth 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, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand 20 seven hundred and sixty-six. THOMAS WILLIAMS. (l.s.) Signed and sealed (being first duly stamped) in the presence of us, Jn°. Broomhead. 25 Heney Freeman. AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Seventeenth day of March, in the said sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the aforesaid Thomas Williams came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein 30 contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped accord¬ ing to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth. Inrolled the said Seventeenth day of March, in the sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, 1766. 35 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856.