Specification of Edmund Neeler : medicinal belt

A.D. 1746 . N° 617.

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EDMUND KEELER.

MEDICINAL BELT.

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A.D. 1746 . N° 617.

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Medicinal Belt.

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NEELER’S SPECIFICATION.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edmund
Neeler, of the Parish of Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.

WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
5 Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Brittain, bearing date at West¬
minster the First day of April, in the nineteenth year of His reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said Edmund Neeler, His especial licence that I,
the said Edmund Neeler, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, the Town
10 of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Colonies and Plantations in America, by
new Invention of 44 A Certain Medicinal Belt Chimxcally Prepared in
which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe, obliging me, the said
Edmund Neeler, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, & in what manner the same is to be
15 performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within
three kalendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.

NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
20 Edmund Neeler, do hereby declare that my said new Invention is to be per¬
formed in the manner herein-after mentioned (that is to say) : —

Take of the best white wine, three quarts ; olive oyl, three pounds ; carduus
benedictus, valerian, and the lesser sage, of each, a quarter of a pound ; the
leaves of Saint John’s wort, half a pound. The herbs must be steeped in the

Sawyer.

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A.D. 1746.— N° 617.

Neeler s Medicinal Belt.

said oyl and wine six or eight days, then put on an easy fire, and keep stirring
two hours, take it off, strain it well, after which put to the above materials two
pounds of white soap, finely scraped ; one pound of white frankincence ; one
pound of Yen ice turpentine. Put all into a large resort, lute a receiver to the
resort ; distil it in sand with a gentle fire, encrease the fire by degrees, from 5
which will come out an oyl, with which mix about twenty pounds j of quick¬
silver, and lett it lye so mixed four or five days, then put to it the white of
eggs ; beat it all together till it comes to an ointment ; spread an ounce of
this ointment on list ; cover the list with a linnen cloth, put it about the
body ; wear it two or three months. In so doing these belts cure most dis- 10
tempers incident to mankind.

In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Nealer, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this.

EDMUND NEELER.

AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of June, 15
One thousand seven hundred and forty-six, the above-named Edmund Neeler
came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Writing above mentioned, and all and every thing therein contained and speci¬
fied, in form above said. And also the said Writing was stamped according
to the form of the Statute made and provided in the sixth year of the reign 20
of the late King William and Queen Mary and so forth.

Inrolled the said Twenty-sixth day of June, in the twentieth year of the
reign of His said Majesty King George the Second.

LONDON :

Printed by George Edward Eyre and Willi am Spottiswoode,
Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856.