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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    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, i q in consequence of the prejudices excited j Pik^^rs^- against it as an object of superstition, has J ''^^^-<- 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. The professed object of this essay is to persuade physicians to submit the Viscus quercinus to the test of experiment. If I