tilled, and the residuum to be precipitated in distilled water, which precipitate is to be dried in flat cakes, by a gentle heat! Can any thing be so truly absurd?-The guaiacum is to be dissolved in alcohol; a part of the spirit to be afterwards drawn off by distillation, till it thickens, which is to be precipitated with water, and dried in cakes! Here again he betrays his ignorance of chemistry. Such a residuum is not miscible with water. How then is a precipitate to be made? Indeed the whole is nothing but the most absurd nonsense, and we defy any chemist to make the Essence of Mustard by these directions.

The Specification, we understand, is given in on the solemnity of an oath. The proprietor swears, that he faithfully prepares his nostrum, according to the recipe he delivers at the Office. Now, the bottle of Essence of Mustard we have examined, and which was purchased at the shop of the patentee, we positively state, is not made according to his specification. We are aware that this is a very serious accusation to lay to his charge; we are, however, willing to prove it: and, having said so much, it becomes the duty of the Legislature, or those concerned in granting the patent, to prosecute the proprietor, for abusing the protection, which they have so imprudently granted him.

Admitting the medicine could be compounded

according to the recipe, it would by no means be a proper remedy for the cure of the disease for which the proprietor advertises it, in every stage and constitution. In acute rheumatism, where the system is too much inflamed, what must be the effects of such heating medicines? There are stages of rheumatism and gout, where stimulants may be administered with great advantage, but it requires great experience to determine when their use may be commenced; and if injudiciously employed, they often so aggravate the disease as to occasion very serious local mischief; indeed, white swelling is frequently the consequence of their improper exhibition.

Acute rheumatism is also often attended with a determination of blood to the lungs, and irritation of the pleura. In such cases, stimulating medicines would produce pleurisy, or inflammation of the lungs, and their continuance, under such circumstances, would very likely destroy the life of the patient. That formidable disease, the lumbar abscess, commences with pain in the back, resembling lumbago, and the early application of stimulating medicines, by hastening suppuration, will endanger the life of the patient; when by an opposite treatment, such mischief might have been effectually prevented. Inflammation of the brain, in its commencement, is often considered rheumatism in the head, by the patient; in such a case, the

exhibition of stimulants (even but in one dose) would so inflame the constitution, and aggravate the local inflammation, as to render all remedies unavailing. Unless such potent medicines are administered under the direction of a medical man, carefully to attend to their operation, they must often be productive of dangerous consequences; and, as the public are only acquainted with their good effects, it is impossible they can judge of the real merits of the medicine; for, if a quack medicine kills ninety-nine patients, and cures one, the one is the only case that is brought before the public. All the cases advertised in the newspapers, that we have inquired into, prove to be the most daring forgeries. The principal cause, therefore, why quack medicines have experienced a demand in this country, is the public manner in which their good effects and forged cases are puffed off in the newspapers, by the proprietors, and blazoned abroad, by their agents; while the cases in which they have proved injurious or fatal, are studiously passed over in silence. Whereas, in the routine of regular practice, recoveries, the most remarkable and unexpected, are only regarded as matters of course, excite no interest, make no noise in the world, and are too often quickly forgotten, even by those who have most reason to remember them with gratitude.

GODBOLD'S VEGETABLE BALSAM.

[Continued from page 45.]

The following is an Office Copy of the Specification, &c. Cost 26s.

"To all to whom these presents shall come, Nathaniel Godbold, of Bloomsbury Square, in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman, sendeth greeting. Whereas his most excellent Majesty, King George the Third, by his Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the third day of May, in the twenty-fifth year of his reign, did give aud grant unto the said Nathaniel Godbold, his executors, administrators, and assigns, his especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that he, the said Nathaniel Godbold, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he the said Nathaniel Goldbold, his executors, administrators, or 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 his Invention for the Cure of Con

sumptions and Disease in the Lungs, by him called "Godbold's Vegetable Balsam," within England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed: In which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that, if the said Nathaniel Godbold should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing, under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within one calendar month next af ter the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the same Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should be void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. Now know ye, that, conformable to, and in compliance with, the said proviso contained in the said recited Letters Patent, I, the said Nathaniel Godbold, do hereby describe, ascertain, and declare, that my said invention of making and preparing the said medicine by me, called "Godbold's Vegetable Balsam," for the Cure of Consumptions and Disease in the Lungs, is made and prepared by, with, and from the following herbs, drugs, and gums. The names of the herbs (from which the Essence is extracted for compounding the. Vegetable. Balsam) are the following, viz. Thistles, Mallows, Yarrow Planton, Nettles,