Punch,  17 (1849), iii–iv.

Preface

Anon

Genre:

Introduction, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment


    Records the botanist John Lindley's description of the mistletoe: 'a number of seeds were glued to the cannon ball; all the radicles were directed to the centre of the ball"'.



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