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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Epilepsy assails with equal virulence, and equal frequency, both sexes; and frequently robs the tender mother of her darling child. Some may apprehend, that I have un- dertaken an arduous task, in endeavour- ing to rescue from oblivion a plant, which, in consequence of the prejudices excited against it as an object of superstition, has been long neglected. Any attempt, how- ever, to prove before natural philoso- phers in this enlightened age, why a for- mer object of superstition should not now, if possible, be turned to advantage, would be alike to trespass upon their time, and call in question their judgment. ''l[ i-O .iiii'i chi* ;Ifl; U l .•;/ ; ■ The professed object of this essay is to persuade physicians to submit the Viscus quercinus to the test of experiment. If I b 2 had
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