Specification of Edmund Neeler : medicinal belt.

  • Neeler, Edmund.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edmund Neeler : medicinal belt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * Medicinal Belt. \ V :J (: i. • ; . ; : \ r. A- } , , ' * / \ - NEELER’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edmund Neeler, of the Parish of Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His 5 Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Brittain, bearing date at West¬ minster the First day of April, in the nineteenth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Edmund Neeler, His especial licence that I, the said Edmund Neeler, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, the Town 10 of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Colonies and Plantations in America, by new Invention of 44 A Certain Medicinal Belt Chimxcally Prepared in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe, obliging me, the said Edmund Neeler, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, & in what manner the same is to be 15 performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within three kalendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said 20 Edmund Neeler, do hereby declare that my said new Invention is to be per¬ formed in the manner herein-after mentioned (that is to say): — Take of the best white wine, three quarts; olive oyl, three pounds; carduus benedictus, valerian, and the lesser sage, of each, a quarter of a pound; the leaves of Saint John’s wort, half a pound. The herbs must be steeped in the