Specification of John Wilkinson : floating baths and cork jackets or floats.

  • Wilkinson, John
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Wilkinson : floating baths and cork jackets or floats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WILKINSON’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John Wilkinson, of the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor in Physick, send greeting. WHEREAS I, the said John Wilkinson, did, by my Petition, humbly 5 represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had, at great labour, study, and expence, discovered methods of “ Preparing Medicated Baths, to be constructed on Frames for Floating on the River Thames or elsewhere, adapted to the Cures of many Diseases, not to be Remedied by other known Means ; together with Floats made of 10 Cork, in Form of Seamen’s Waistcoats or otherwise, to be used there or elsewhere to prevent Drowning, as also by Seamen or Persons using the Sea in Time of Shipwreck or other Accidents on Water, in a Manner NEVER PRACTISED BY ANY OTHER PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER UNTIL THE Discovery thereof made Six Years ago by me;” that I, strongly beleiving 15 my said discoveries would be of the utmost use for restoring the health and preserving the lives of many of His said Majesty’s subjects and others, I did, therefore, most humbly pray His Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole right and
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