An abstract of the patent granted by His Majesty King George to Benj. Okell, the inventor of a medicine, call'd, Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, and to J. Cluer, R. Raikes and W. Dicey, the persons concerned with the said inventor, that they enjoy the sole benefit of the said medicine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Okell, Benjamin.

Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746, printer.

Cluer, John, approximately 1681-1728, printer.

Raikes, Robert, 1690-1757.

Dicey, William.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Patent medicines--Early works to 1800.

Patent medicines.

Penn Provenance:

Ravdin, Isidore S. (Isidore Schwaner), 1894- (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rhodes, John (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4, 36 pages ; 17 cm

Other Title:

Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops

Fingerprint:

ine. emch heth Caev (3) 1731 (A)

Place of Publication:

[New York] : London, Printed by J. Cluer in Bow-Church-Yard, and reprinted by John Peter Zenger in New York, 1731.

Notes:

In two parts: the patent itself is followed by "A short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops" with separate title page, pagination and register.

Second title-page, on the second pagination sequence, reads: A short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distemper they cure, and the manner of their operation. Publish'd by the King's Letter Patents under the Great Seal of Great Britain. The Seal of each Bottle. To be Sold only by James Wallace, in New York. Reprinted by J. Peter Zenger, in New York.

Title page to "A short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops" has a woodcut of the seal, depicting a boar's head encircled with the words "By the King's patent".

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is gift of I.S. Ravdin.

Culture Class Collection copy was presented to Dr. I.S. Ravdin by A.S.W. Rosenbach, with incription which reads "To D I.S. Ravdin with my love A.S.W.R. March 27, 1940 John Peter Zenger who printed this book was noted for his fight for Freedom of the Press. At his celebrated trial he was defended by Hamilton, the Philadelphia lawyer. He traveled from this city to New York and won his case. Hence the term a 'Philadelphia Lawyer' This is the only copy known."

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of John Rhodes on first leaf, who signs as "John Rhodes Ejus Liber".--Cf. The Newport Historical Magazine, Volumes 1-2, Newport Historical Publishing Company, 1881,p. 234.

OCLC:

824971597