By His Majesty's Royal letters patent. Essence of pepper-mint / [prepared and sold by J. Juniper].

  • Juniper, John, 1722?-1798.
Date:
[1779]
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Credit: By His Majesty's Royal letters patent. Essence of pepper-mint / [prepared and sold by J. Juniper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bj H’is Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Essence of PEPPER-MI NT. PEpp&r-Mint,. a piRTit pecqllaT: to our own country, ciiFers remarkably from all th^ other kinda of Mint, in ks-quick, penetrating fmeli, and in it^ (Ifong warm tafee, pungent like pepper, glowing upon the lips, finking as it were into thq tongue* Thefe-qualities gave occafion for. trial to be made of it as a Mqdicine; and fo. well has it been found to anfwer \j.hat its fingular fmqll and tafte promifed, that though the plant was not knowa till towards the beginning of the prefent century (being firk mentioned, fo far as, I can. find, by Mr. Ray, in the fupplement to his Hiftcry of Plmits), its ufe has, for fome years, been efcablilhed througlrout the kingdom. General experience has confirmed, beyond difpute, the great virtues of this plant in cholicky pains and flatulencies, as well thofe which happen fuddenly from various caufes to perfons in health, as in thofe which are in a manner babuqal to the weak and fedentary ; in the Reachings, Gicknefs, Lofs of appe¬ tite, and other injuries brought on by the abufe of wines or of fpirituous liquors ; in hyflerical or hypochondriacal Depreffions ; in the Tremblings, Lownefs of Spirits, and various Nervous Weaknefles, which women of tender conflitutions are fo often afHidled with, and which the plentiful ufe of tea con¬ tributes greatly to fupport. A Thefe virtues of Pepper-mint are in general acknowledged by Phyficians : Some of the mofl attentive anq judicious have been wifhing for a more elegant and advantageous preparation of thi.5 Vcduable plant than thofe^^hithertq known,; ajl thofe in common ufe are accompanied with confiderable inconveniencies ; the Ample dillilled water, at befi, i? very precarious in ilrength ; the fpirituoub water is rendered by the fpirit d.etrimental in fundry cafes where the Ample vir¬ tue of the Pepper-mint would be falutary ; the, eflential oil, a mofl potent rnedi- cinCj is incommodious in the dofirg and .taking,; and all thefe preparations have (or^ fha.re of a dlfguftful fla'^'Otir, joined to the warmth and lurngency of ■The herb In this Essence all the refpedive advantages of thpie preparations are united, and their inconveniencies are entirely obviaied. 2 Befides