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to me by my father. My own brother, Mr. Daniel Daffye, apothecary in Nottingham, made this Elixir from the said receipt and sold it there during his life. Those who know it will believe what I declare; and those who do not may be convinced that I am no counterfeit by the colour, taste, smell, and operation of my Elixir. To be had at the Hand and Pen, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.

Catherine Daffy was not a clever advertiser, for her announcement seems calculated to assist Anthony Daffy's preparation as much as her own, and it is likely that this was not her intention. Such little evidence as exists goes to show that it was Anthony's and not Catherine's Elixir that maintained the fame which had been won.

Daffy's Elixir is still made by Sutton & Co., of 76 Chiswell Street, the successors to Dicey & Co., of Bow Church Yard, who were themselves successors to Benjamin Okell, who was carrying on the business in 1727, but when or from whom, or for what consideration the property was transferred to them from the Daffy family, is not known. The old-fashioned handbills wrapped round the bottles state that the Elixir was "much recommended to the public by Dr. King, Physician to King Charles II, and the late learned and ingenious Dr. Radcliffe." Unhappily, however, "a low set of mercenary vendors" have been making imitations of this "noble and generous Elixir," using "foul and ordinary spirits instead of clean and pure brandy, and base and damaged drugs," of which none could be guilty "but such as never feel for any but themselves."

This medicine still figures in the French Codex and in other continental Pharmacopœias. It is an alcoholic