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:
1720
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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.

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    ( 3° ) tlio in their outward Appearance and real Nature much more terrible. The Cafes jufl: now recked] are fufficient to demonftrate to the World, that common Mifletoe is a great Medicine, and highly to be efteem’d. As for Mifletoe of the Oak, I have never yet feen any. Thofe of the Antients, that were Men of Virtue and Compaflion, whenever they had any thing to com¬ municate, to the World that might be of pul)lick Advantage, always did it in the known and common Lan¬ guage : And as I defign this for the coijnmon Good, were I able to write Latin in as elegant a Stile as Cicero did, that fliould not induce me to fend it abroad in any other way, than in the homely manner in which it is done. I have turned over many Books, fince I publifh d the firfl: part of this 'Dijfertation, to fee whether I could pro¬ cure any farther light into the natural Hiftory