The claim recorded in Robert Turlington’s own 1743/44 royal letters patent specification for a preparation titled A Specifick Balsam, Called the Balsam of Life, per the Mackinac State Historic Parks artifact record and corroborated by the 2016 archaeological history’s abstract, which dates the patent to 1743/44 and records its twenty-seven-ingredient alcohol-solution formula. No contemporaneous outcome data accompanies the patent claim; it is an assertion embedded in the patent specification itself.