Specification of Joseph Collett : medicinal preparation.

  • Collett, Joseph.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Joseph Collett : medicinal preparation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bennett. 2 A.D. 1754.—N° 695. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Joseph Collett, do hereby declare that the said Oleum Yite, or Ladies’ Nervous and Cordial Drops, is made and prepared in the following manner (that is to say):— First, put eight gallons of distilled river water, and four gallons of the best 5 Madeira wine, and six pounds of sal ammoniack into a large vesica well tinn’d, then put into it equal quantitys of the flower of camomile and rosemary, the tops of lavender, savory, mint, and sweet marjeram, the seeds of anise and sweet fennel, well bruised; stir it well together, and stop it down close, let it stand in a constant heat, about blood warm, for eighteen days ; then lute i o on the head, and draw off by a gentle fire almost to a dryness; then seperate the oleaginous part from the other, and put it into a glass vessell with a long neck, put to it of flowers of benzion two ounces, flowers of sulphur four ounces; seal it up close, and let it stand in warm sand ’till it comes to a proper colour and consistance, which is then fit for use. It is to be taken by 15 children from two drops to eight, and by grown persons from eight drops to twenty, first dropped on lump or powder sugar, and to be repeated night and morning till the cure is performed. In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Collett, have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-five. JOSEPH (l.s.) COLLETT. Sealed and delivered (being first duly stampt) in the presence of ^ Rich® Atcherley. John Webb Robinson. AND BE IT KEMEMBKED, that on the Fourth day of February, in the year above written, the above-named Joseph Collett came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing afore- 39 said, and all & every thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamp’d according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth. Inrolled the said Fourth day of February, in the year above written. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1856.