Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops

It was later marketed as a remedy for ‘all Rheumatic and Chronic complaints, in pains of the limbs, bones, and joints, for influenza, and in violent colds,.

[3] Okell went into partnership with the proprietors of the Northampton Mercury, William Dicey and Robert Raikes, and from August 1721 the medicine was advertised in the imprint of the newspaper.

[4] About 1724 Okell published A short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distempers they cure, and the manner of their operation, printed by Raikes and Dicey.

W. Sutton & Co. (Druggists' Sundries), London, Ltd., of Enfield, in Middlesex, successors to Dicey & Co. at Bow Churchyard, currently sells Bateman's Pectoral Drops in the early 1950s.

[12] By the mid-nineteenth century there were a variety of different manufacturers and formulae on the market, Thus an advertisement in The Derby Mercury, for 5 January 1842, is for ‘Barclays’ Bateman's Drops’,.

In ‘’acute’’ cases as ‘fever, colds, and cough,’ it is capable of doing irreparable mischief, by disordering the head, constipating the bowels, and accelerating the circulation.