"JO. CANT, THO. OXFORD, HARDWICKE, C., STE. POYNTZ, WILMINGTON, P., STEPHEN HALES, GODOLPHIN, C. P. S., JO. GARDINER, DORSET, SIM BURTON, MONTAGUE, PETER SHAW, PEMBROKE, D. HARTLEY, BALTIMORE, W. CHESELDEN, CORNBURY, C. HAWKINS, M. GLOUCESTER, SAM. SHARP." When such men as Cheselden, Hawkins, and Sharp could sign such a certificate, we need feel no surprise at the conduct of Dr. Nesbit and Dr. Pellet (Mead's early friend, who rose to be president of the College of Physicians). These two gentlemen, who were on the commission, having some scruples about the words "dissolving power," gave separate testimonials in favour of the medicines. St. John Long's cause, it may be remembered, was advocated by Dr. Ramadge, a Fellow of the College. The country paid its money, and obtained Joanna's prescriptions. Here is a portion of the lady's statement:-- "_A full Discovery of the Medicines given by me, Joanna Stephens, and a particular account of my method of preparing and giving the same._ "My medicines are a Powder, a Decoction, and Pills. "The Powder consists of egg-shells and snails--both calcined. "The Decoction is made by boiling some herbs (together with a ball which consists of soap, swine's-cresses burnt to a blackness, and honey) in water. "The Pills consist of snails calcined, wild carrot seeds, burdock seeds, ashen keys, hips and hawes--all burnt to a blackness--soap and honey. "The powder is thus prepared:--Take hen's egg-shells, well drained from the whites, dry and clean; crush them small with the hands, and fill a crucible of the twelfth size (which contains nearly three pints) with them lightly, place it on the fire till the egg-shells be calcined to a greyish white, and acquire an acrid, salt taste: this will take up eight hours, at least. After they are thus calcined, put them in a dry, clean earthen pan, which must not be above three parts full, that there may be room for the swelling of the egg-shells in stacking. Let the pan stand uncovered in a dry room for two months, and no longer; in this time the egg-shells will become of a milder taste, and that part which is sufficiently calcined will fall into a powder of such a fineness, as to pass through a common hairsieve, which is to be done accordingly. "In like manner, take garden snails, with their shells, cleaned from the dirt; fill a crucible of the same size with them whole, cover it, and place it on the fire as before, till the snails have done smoaking, which will be in about an hour--taking care that they do not continue in the fire after that. They are then to be taken out of the crucible, and immediately rubbed in a mortar to a fine powder, which ought to be of a very dark-grey colour.