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Show MISTLETOE. 833 powder ; which ought to be confined in a bottle, and kept in a situation where both light andair are excluded, as the admission of either tends to deprive this vegetable of its natural efficacy. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Instances of the efficacy of the viscus quercinus in epilepsy are published in the writings of Paracelsus, Lemmius, Loseke, Hannes, Koelderer, Cole, Pliny, Swieten, Pfiindel, Borellus, Boyle, Colbach, Baier, Cartheuser, and Hartmann. Wearealso informed, that the late Dr. Fothergill and Dr. Gilbert Thomson employed this medicine with great success in the cure of epilepsy ; and my learnedfriend Dr. Willan has experiencedthe utility of this plant in the treatment of that disease. The learned Dr. Frazer has had equal success with this plant, and published his experience in an ingenious workentitled “‘ On Epilepsy, and the Use of the Viscus Quercinus (Mistletoe of the Oak), in the Cure of that Disease.” i mY MiS5.T LE YT. E. VISCUM ALBUM. Class XXL. Dicecia. Kasent. Gen. Cnar. Order TV. Tetrandria. Male flower—Calyx four-parted: Corolla none, Filaments none: Anthers adhere to the calyx. Female flower—Calyz four-leaved, above: Corolla none: Styles none: Berry one-seeded: Seed tailed. Sprec. CHar. Stem dichotomous: Leaves in pairs. elses DESCRIPTION. Tins is a parasitical plant, like a large busli. regularly dichotomous. The branches are Leaves ending blunt, in pairs, sessile, striated, cntire. Berry white, smooth, globular, clustered, containing one fleshy seed. HISTORY. This plant grows on various kinds of trees, producing its flowers in May, but its berries remain throughout the winter. This singular parasitical plantis found on apple-trees, also onthe pear, hawthorn, service, oak, hazel, maple, ash lime-tree, willow, elm, hornbeam, &c. The viscum should be separated from the oak about Christmas, then gradually dried. It is afterwards to be groundinto afine |