Colonial merchant Thomas Anderton advertised “TURLINGTON’s BALSAM OF LIFE; OR THE TRUE AMERICAN BALSAM” in the Pennsylvania Packet of 17 February 1772, per the Adverts 250 Project’s archival transcription of the period newspaper text. Anderton’s advertisement claimed the balsam was prepared “from a true copy of the original receipt, taken out of the Chancery-office, in London, where it is recorded on oath, when the patent was granted,” appealing to Turlington’s original patent record for authenticity while marketing the medicine directly to colonial buyers. No practitioner_slug is recorded for this claim because the advertisement was placed by a colonial reseller, not documented here as Robert Turlington himself; it is included as advertising for the same patented intervention under Turlington’s name and patent claim, continuing in the colonies after his 1766 death.