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

  • Henry Fraser
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.

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    Spalowsky,q Bazoux,r Diirande,* and We- denbergh,* on the authority of experience. But Dr. Odhelius appears to have em- ployed this medicine with even greater success than any of his cotemporaries, for he assures us, that of fourteen patients suffering under epileptic and convulsive affections, to whom he gave the stramo- nium in an hospital at Stockholm, eight were completely cured, five were relieved, and only one received no benefit/ Gre- ding,w however, who made many experi- ments with a view to ascertain the efficacy of this plant, was not successful; for out of q Vid. Diss. de Cicuta, Flammula Jovis, Stramonio, 8tc, p. 30. r Vid. Epistol. de Cicuta, Stramonio, &c. JSemausi, 1780. 8 Vid. Gardane Gazette de Sante. 1773> 1774- P- 143. 1 Vid. Diss. de usu Stfamonii, &c. Upsaliae, ]772. v Vid. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 177^. p. 277* s9- w Vid. Ludwig. Adversar. Med. pract. vol. i p. 259. 345.
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