Specification of Robert Turlington : medicinal compound.

  • Turlington, Robert, -1767
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Turlington : medicinal compound. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Allen. Turlington s Medicinal Compound. benjamin five pounds, angilica one pound, gum elemy seven pounds, cinnamon two pounds, guiacum three pounds, cloves one pound, myrrh six pounds, nuttmeggs eight ounces, araback eight pounds, winter bark one pound, perne one pound, safron one pound, mace four ounces, oyle eight pounds, Saint John 5 wort eight pounds, marsh mallows four pounds. Distill and digest the same with a quantity sufficient of rectifyed spirits in a glass vehicle, untill the same become a balsam, on a sand heat or slow fire, which said balsam is to be taken in any liquid, thirty or forty drops at a time, according to the nature of the patient’s disorder, and to be repeated as often as occasion requires, which will 10 cure the stone, gravel, cholick, and inward weakness. In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Turlington, have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, One thousand seven hundred and forty-four, in the seventeenth year of the reign of King George the Second. 15 ROBERT TURLINGTON. f AND BE IT BEMEMBRED, that on the Eleventh day of May above written, the before-named Robert Turlington came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Writing, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And also the said 20 Writing was stamped according to the form of the Statute made and provided in the sixth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, and so forth. Inrolled the Twelfth day of May, in the seventeenth year of King George the Second within written. 25 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode,
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