A.D. 174S

N° 633.

SPECIFICATION

OF

WALTER BAKER.

MEDICINAL PREPARATION.

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A.D. 1748 . . . . N° 633.

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Medicinal Preparation.

BAKER’S SPECIFICATION.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Walter
Baker, of Helmet Court, in tlie Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Chymist,
send greeting.

WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
5 Royal! Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twelfth day of July, in the twenty-second year of His reign, did give and
grant unto the said Walter Baker, His special licence that he, the said Walter
Baker, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
10 Tweed, his “New Chymical Preparation and Medicine which he hath Stiled
Schwanberg’s Liquid Shell in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging the said Walter Baker, under his hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of
15 Chancery within four calender months after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more at
large appear.

NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Walter Baker, do hereby declare that the said medicine is compounded and
20 performed as followeth (that is to say) : —

Native marine shells, prepared and properly cleansed from their filth and
external coats, and only the pearly and transparent parts, to be calcined in
such a heat as to become nearly an alkali ; seirce through a fine sieve, then
with a sufficient quantity of factitious salt, prepared according to art, calcine by

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Bakers Medicinal Preparation.

cementation ; after which in a clean place dissolve it per deliquium, and then,
by filtration proper, the liquid shell is produced ; of which liquid shell a child
in the month may take from twelve drops to twenty ; and persons from seven
to fifteen, from thirty to fifty ; from fifteen and upwards, from fifty to one
hundred drops, in fine common soft river water, white wine, green tea, or 5
parsley water, three, four, five, or six times a day.

In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Baker, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of October, in the twenty-second year
of the reign of King George the Second, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and forty-eight. 10

WALTER (l.s.) BAKER.

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AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Tenth day of October, the
aforesaid Walter Baker came before our Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the aforesaid Writing, and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form aforesaid. And the said Writing was stamped accord- 15
ing to the Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reign of the
late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.

Inrolled the said Tenth day of October, in the said twenty-second year of
the reign of His said Majesty King George the Second.

LONDON :

Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode,
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1850.