Specification of Henry Wright : cough drops.

  • Wright, Henry, active 1760.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Henry Wright : cough drops. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1760 .N° 757. Cough Drops. WRIGHT’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, Henry Wright, of the Parish of Saint Michael’s, in the City of London, Chymisfc, sendeth greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His 5 Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of December, in the first year of His said Majesty’s reign, reciting that the said Henry Wright had, by great study, appli¬ cation, and expence in trying experiments, found out and invented (i A New Medicine which he calls Caryophilius Regius, or Royal Clove Drops, which 10 ARE OF THE MOST EFFICACIOUS NATURE IN THE CURE OF PAINS IN THE STOMACH, Shortness of Breath, Coughs, Hooping Coughs, Cold Chills, Fitts, and the worst Symptoms of Consumptions, the same being found to be Superior to any Medicine yet Discovered for the above Disorders,” His said Majesty did give and grant unto the said Henry Wright, his executors, administrators, and 15 assigns, His special licence that the said Henry Wright, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, his said new Invention; in which said recited Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging the said Henry Wright, by writing under his hand and seal, gO to cause a particular description of the use of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, to be inrolled in His Majesty High