Specification of Page Dewing Woodcock : pill or preparation for medicinal purposes.

  • Woodcock, Page Dewing.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Page Dewing Woodcock : pill or preparation for medicinal purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Woodcock's Preparation or Pill for Medicinal Purposes. sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, Her special license that I, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, my exe¬ cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said 5 Page Dewing Woodcock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and 10 Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Ax Improved Preparation or Pill for Medicinal Purposes, hereby denominated Page Woodcock’s Wind Pills,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said 15 Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be tiled in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, 20 do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say): My Invention consists of a new combination of drugs, medicines, or medicinal preparations made into the form of pills for the relief 25 and cure of the following bodily diseases, disorders, or complaints. For the dispersion of accumulated gaseous matter or air generated internally, and commonly and familiarly known as wind in the sto¬ mach and bowels, and giddiness of the head; also for diseases or ailments known as heartburn, indigestion, disturbed sleep, palpitation 3Q of the heart, colic, gout, jaundice, dropsy, asthma, sore throat, ague, biliousness, erysipelas, lumbago, piles, tic douloureux, scurvy, and other eruptions of the skin; as well as for all complaints and dis¬ orders of the liver, and for the diseases or irregularities peculiar to women, and known as female complaints. They are also applicable 35 and beneficial for the relief and cure of many other bodily diseases, ailments, disorders, or complaints.