Patent of Richard Stringer : essence of myrrh for the teeth and gums.

  • Stringer, Richard.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Patent of Richard Stringer : essence of myrrh for the teeth and gums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stringer s Preparation of Myrrh for Curing Scurvy in the Gums, ^c, and that he, the said Richard Stringer, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein and herein-after mentioned, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said 5 licence, powers, privileges, and advantages unto the said Richard Stringer, his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent (amongst other things) is con¬ tained a proviso, that if the said Richard Stringer shall not particularly 10 describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrumentdn writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the same Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and 15 advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. NOW KNOW YE, that the said Richard Stringer, in pursuance of the Invention of the said Letters Patent, and in compliance with the proviso 20 therein contained, doth hereby declare that the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, is as follows, that is to say:— The method of making ‘‘ Stringer’s Essence of Myrrh ” is, take gum myrrh grains ten, spirits of wine half a pint, rose water one pint & fourteen ounces, 25 orange flower water two ounces, spirits of salts two scruples, burnt allum two scruples, cochineal one drachm, all which digest and filter. In witness whereof, the said Richard Stringer hath hereunto set his hand and seal, the Twelfth day of April, in the ^ thirty-first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of 30 God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred • and ninety-one. RICHARD (L.S.) STRINGER. Sealed and delivered (being first duly 35 stampt) in the presence of T. Huxley, Alex. Lamb, ^ Middle Temple.