On epilepsy, and the use of the Viscus quercinus, or, misletoe [sic] of the oak, in the cure of that disease / by Henry Fraser.

  • Fraser, Henry, active 1806.
Date:
1806
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Credit: On epilepsy, and the use of the Viscus quercinus, or, misletoe [sic] of the oak, in the cure of that disease / by Henry Fraser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    made from them by water, are bitterish, roughish, and subsaline. The spiritous extract of the wood has the greatest aus- terity, that of the leaves the greatest bit- terness.'' The Viscus should be separated from the oak about Christmas, then gradually dried. It is afterwards to be ground into a fine powder; which ought to be confined in a bottle, and kept in a situation, where both light and air are excluded; as the admission of either tends to deprive this vegetable of its natural efficacy. Instances of the efficacy of the Viscus Quercinus in Epilepsy, are published in the writings of Paracelsus,'^ Lemnius,^ Loseke, Vid. Woodviile. Medic. Botan. Vol. iv. p, 151, ^ Vid. Paracelsus d&morbo caduco. p. 602. * Vid. Tr. de mirac. occult, natur. p. 148.