This unique two-part discussion of foxglove--the herb from which digitalis is derived--features a facsimile of William Withering's classic "An Account of Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses," complete with explanatory notes interpreting this eighteenth century text for the modern reader. The second part of the book, written by J.K. Aronson, co-author of the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology, includes an introduction to the botany and pharmacology of foxgloves, their therapeutic uses before Withering, a short biography of Withering, an account of 18th century medical practices, and finally a review of the uses of digitalis in modern medicine.
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AS the more obvious and fenfible properties of plants, fuch as colour, tafte, and fmell, have but little connexion with the difeafes they are adapted to cure; fo their peculiar qualities have no certain dependence upon their external configuration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ovarium dropsy, few dofes, studying affections, total lofs, fmall quantity, feveral days, fome years, thefe cafes, gum ammoniac, other cardiac glycosides, powdered leaf, fix weeks, fix hours, digitalis therapy, purple foxglove, tertian ague, digitalis purpurea, pulmonary consumption, other diuretics, violent vomiting, copious flow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Withering, Lunar Society, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, Alexander Monro, Brooke Hector, Jonathan Stokes, London Medical, Medical Transactions, Hall Jackson, John Ash, Medical Commentaries, Medical Society of London, Birmingham General Hospital, Caldas da Rainha, Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, Great Britain, John Hope, Silas Marner, Sir George Baker, Description Qualifications Conclusions, Edmund Witherings, George Eliot, John Ferriar, John Gregory New!
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AS the more obvious and fenfible properties of plants, fuch as colour, tafte, and fmell, have but little connexion with the difeafes they are adapted to cure; fo their peculiar qualities have no certain dependence upon their external configuration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ovarium dropsy, few dofes, studying affections, total lofs, fmall quantity, feveral days, fome years, thefe cafes, gum ammoniac, other cardiac glycosides, powdered leaf, fix weeks, fix hours, digitalis therapy, purple foxglove, tertian ague, digitalis purpurea, pulmonary consumption, other diuretics, violent vomiting, copious flow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Withering, Lunar Society, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, Alexander Monro, Brooke Hector, Jonathan Stokes, London Medical, Medical Transactions, Hall Jackson, John Ash, Medical Commentaries, Medical Society of London, Birmingham General Hospital, Caldas da Rainha, Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, Great Britain, John Hope, Silas Marner, Sir George Baker, Description Qualifications Conclusions, Edmund Witherings, George Eliot, John Ferriar, John Gregory New!
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