Specification of Humphry Jackson : medicinal compound.

  • Humphrey Jackson
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Humphry Jackson : medicinal compound. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jacksons Medicinal Compound. priviledges, and advantages therein granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto the said Humphry Jackson, his extors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided ; in which said Letters 5 Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said Humphry Jackson 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 three kalendar months next and immediately after 10 the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterlie cease, determine, and become void, as by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear. HOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Humphry Jackson, in pursuance of the 15 said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be prepared, as follows, videlicet:— The Rectified Spirit.—Take forty gallons of proof melasses spirit, ten pounds of Florentine orris root bruised, and ten pounds of salt of tartar; put these 20 into a still and draw off the spirit, to which add gradually five pounds of the strong spirit of vitriol, and, by means of a balneo marie, distill off the spirit. The Compound Spirit of Saffron.—Take of English saffron six pounds, of the lesser cardamom seeds ten pounds, of Virginia snake root six pounds, of ginseng root twelve pounds, of the rectified spirit above mentioned fourteen 25 gallons ; infuse for six days, and then distill off the spirit per balneo marise. Then to this spirit add of Kermes juice ten pounds, of cinamon two pounds, of mace one pound ; draw off the spirit again, per balneo marise. The Compound Extract of Ginseng.—Jake of W^est India ginsengroot twenty- five pounds slic d, of the tops of lesser centaury, fresh gathered, ten pounds, 30 of calamus aromaticus slic d, six pounds; boil these in thirty gallons of water gently for the space of eight hours, then strain, and add to the ingredients six gallons of the best French brandy and three gallons of pure water. Digest these in a very gentle heat ten days ; then strain off the tincture, and add it to the decoction, which must then be evaporated to the consistence of an 35 extract. 1 ake off the dry d and fresh-peeled rind of Seville oranges, each twenty pounds, of the fresh-peeled rind of ripe citrons ten pounds, of gentian root slic’d twelve pounds, of the lesser cardamom seeds six pounds, of Peruvian bark two pounds, of cochineal two pounds; put these into a
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