Specification of John Thompson : medicine.

  • John Thompson
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of John Thompson : medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thompson s Medicine. genine salt of soda (so called), prepared at Alicant, in Spain, two pounds; bullock’s gall, perfectly fresh, two quarts. When the fermentation is over, and the feeces have subsided, pour off the clear liquor, and put it into a strong retort, which having placed in a sand heat, and luted a receiver, gradually rise 5 the fire to such a height as is sufficient to throw off all the parts capable of being raised. This done, extinguish the fire, and when the vessel is quite cold unlute the receiver, and having separated the oily parts from the watry, add the oil to what remains in the retort, and stop it close. Then carefully evaporate the residuum to the consistence of honey, and put to the 10 above, adding at the same time to every quart of liquid in the retort six ounces of camphire extracted from rosemary, first dissolved in a sufficient quantity of the very best rectified spirit of wine. Put the whole into a strong bottle with a ground stopper; place it in a moderate sand heat for five or six days, often shaking the vessel; then let it subside, and pour off the beaume 15 for use. Note.—During the whole of the process great care must be taken not to increase the heat too hastilv. J In witness whereof, T, the said John Thompson, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the twenty- seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by oq the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six. JOHN (l.s.) THOMPSON. AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of November, 05 in the year last above mentioned, the said John Thompson came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form last above mentioned. And also that the Specification aforesaid was duly stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided. Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year last above written. 30 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856. E. Leeds