A dissertation concerning misletoe : a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers : calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich, and heartily recommended for the common good of mankind : 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 : a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers : calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich, and heartily recommended for the common good of mankind : to which is added, a second part, containing farther remarks and observations. / By Sir John Colbatch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it4l Temper, and as quick in his Underfendihg, as any Child, I think, I ever faw in my Life. For Security fake, I defin’d that he might take the Medicines Night and Morning for two; or three Months longer, which was readily com- ply’d with 5 and he has never had a Fit iince. Mifletoe generally keeps the Body open > but when it does not do it, it is necefiary once in three or four Days to give fome very gentle le¬ nitive Medicines j but never any ftrong Purge,,, which always does mifehief in Epileptical Cafes. . It always kept this Child regularly open, fa he had never any thing given him, from begin¬ ning to end, but what is here mentioned. I own, that when I firft faw this Child, I did apprehend his Cafe to be fo very defperate,, that I did not think it poffible for him ever to be made perfedtly well 5 but thro’ God’s Mer¬ cy, I was deceived. On the twenty feventh Day of December, 11 was fent for to a moft beautiful young Lady of about eleven Years of ifge, whole Circumftancesi were rnoif deplorable. She had the St. Fit is'& Dance in as extreme a manner, as perhaps ever any one had : I had never feen any thing before like it. HerUnderftanding was greatly impair’d 3 fuchi a Faultring in her Speech, that fhe could fcarce fpeak a AVord, io as to be underifood. All the Mufcles of her Body were continually convulfed,r both in Bed and up. She could neither Hand,,. nor