A dissertation concerning misletoe [sic] : a most wonderful specific remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers. Calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich ... to which is added, a second part, containing farther remarks and observations / by Sir John Colbatch.

  • Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729
Date:
1730
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A dissertation concerning misletoe [sic] : a most wonderful specific remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers. Calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich ... to which is added, a second part, containing farther remarks and observations / by Sir John Colbatch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    20/92 (page 6)
    it grew, or whether all Mifletoe were not the lame. After my Thoughts had been lbme time employ’d upon this Subject, I concluded that the Mifletoe of the Crab, the Lime, the Pear, or any o- ther Tree, were of equal .Virtue with that of the Oak, for the following Reafons; and which has been con¬ firm’d to me fince by large Experience, which is beyond every thing elle. Now fuppole that the Mifletoe of the Oak does furpals that of all other Trees; yet from ten Years large Ex¬ perience I find the ordinary Mifletoe to be the moil Noble Medicine I ever knew : and fince it’s every where to be had, at leaf! in this Ifland, it ought to be efleem’d as a great Bleffing; and if the ether excel it, thole that are capable of procuring it, ought to efteem it accordingly. But if the Mifletoe were in any manner produced from the Tree upon which it grows, as the Gaul is. from the