A dissertation concerning misletoe : a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers : calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich, and heartily recommended for the common good of mankind : to which is added, a second part, containing farther remarks and observations. / By Sir John Colbatch.

  • Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.
Date:
1720
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Credit: A dissertation concerning misletoe : a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers : calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich, and heartily recommended for the common good of mankind : to which is added, a second part, containing farther remarks and observations. / By Sir John Colbatch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , ( H ) fome of the Mifletoe Julep, and if that don’t open them, the following Glifter. c Manna, two Drams> Mifletoe Powder, c half a Dram j Pennyroyal W ater, three Ounces j * Oil of Camomile, two Drams: mix and make c a Glifter.’ To Children of about ten Years of Age may be given half a Dram of the Powder, with three Grains of Afta Foetida, three times a Day, and a Draught of the Infufion afterwards. Men and Women may take a Dram of the Powder with five or fix Grains of Afta Foetida, three or four times a day, according to the Ur¬ gency of the Cafe > drinking a large Draught of Infufion afterwards, and may drink a Draught of the Infufion betwixt whiles; Now the ftrong- er the Infufion is made, the better * fo that it be not made fo ftrong as to naufeate the Stomach. Having for a great many Years feen the moft convincing Proofs of the wonderful Effefts of the Miftetoe itfelf, being only gather’d in a pro¬ per time, and carefully dried and powder’d} It never enter’d into my Head to make any Tryals about extrafting a Tinfture from it, tho I had long ago been convinced that its chief Excellence coniifted in its Birdlime, which is a moft wonder¬ ful, t raft able, foft Refin, and I knew diiTolva- ble in Spirit of Wine 5 nav, I have given the Birdlime alone, join’d with fome proper Pow¬ der to make it into Pills, in a deplorable Cafe, with Succefs. But