Specification of Nathaniel Godbold : vegetable balsam.

  • Nathaniel Godbold
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Nathaniel Godbold : vegetable balsam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Godbold's Vegetable Balsam. __ which, said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if the said Natha¬ niel Godbold should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after the 5 date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should be void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. HOW KNOW YE, that conformable to and in compliance with the said 10 provisoe contained in the said recited Letters Patent, I, the said Nathaniel Godbold, do hereby describe, ascertain, and declare, that my said Invention of making and preparing the said medicine, by me called “ Godbold’s Vegetable Balsam,” for the Cure of Consumptions and Disease in the Lungs, is made and prepared by, with, and from the following herbs, drugs, and gums:— 15 The names of the herbs (from which the essence is extracted for com¬ pounding the vegetable balsam) are the following, viz1:—Thistles, mallows, yarrow, planton, nettles, cowslips, buers, pastory, aron wake, robin, maiden hair, egremony, peony, linaria, endue, clemont, mandinwort, rosemary, rue, gibrumbetli, alecost, featherfew, allkenkengy, algelica, ringea, wormwood, tor- 20 mentil, sena, strawberries, red currants, black currants, rasberries, damisons, capsicum, ciceroy, elderberries, banberries, garlick, mivabolano, elecampaigne, betony, milfoil, anniseeds, tamarinds, and bays, the essences of all which said herbs are extracted by distillation, and are all preserved seperately and apart from each other in syrups, and are mixed with the following gums and drugs, 25 viz1: gum dragon, gum guaicum, gum Arabic, and gum Canada. These being dissolved in double distilled vinegar, with a quantity of storax dissolved in spirits of wine and oil of cinnamon, it is bottled off and kept full three years before it is fit to be administered or proper to be taken as a medicine for the cure of consumptions and disease in the lungs, or any asthmatic complaint. 30 In witness whereof, the said Nathaniel Godbold hath hereunto set his hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five. NATHL (l.s.) GODBOLD. Sealed and delivered (being first duly 35 stamped) in the presence of Hent Horth. J. Roberts.
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