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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    siting him, there feeming a fort of uneafinels, that he was not free from his Fits in that time., The fourth was a young Woman about twen¬ ty-three, whofe good Mother had fpent her whole Subftance in feven Years attempts to make her well. In the four Months I have had her under my Care, there has been feveral times an appearance as if fhe would be made well: but diilrefs of Mind from her mife- rable reduced Circumftances, having before li¬ ved well, has, I believe, eluded the force of the Medicine j tho’ I am ftill in hopes to recover her, not with handing her Cafe is moft piiferable. But thefe four Jnflances, where Succefs has been wanting, are nothing in comparifon of the great numbers that have been made well. I have lately come to the knowledge, that Mifletoe will, with very little trouble, yield its Tincture in Spirit of Wine. But, not to arro¬ gate to myfelf what is not my due, I fhall here de¬ clare the way how I came to the knowledge of it, which is as follows. Mr. Small the Surgeon, being in the Shop of Mr. Riddle an Apothecary in Filler s-Street^ York- •Buildings, as they were talking about the won¬ derful Effects of Mifletoe, Mr. Small fud, That it was great pity that the Powder was disagree¬ able to fome very nice Stomachs, as indeed I have fometimes found it to be > he therefore de¬ fied the other to try whether it would not yield a Tincture in highly redtiry’d Spirit of Wine, as