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An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
William Withering
In 1775 an old woman in Shropshire kept a family recipe that cured dropsy when the doctors failed. William Withering worked out what was in it: foxglove. This is his famous 1785 account, the cases year by year, the doses, the failures he refused to hide, the patients who got up from their deathbeds. It is the moment a folk remedy became modern medicine, told by the careful country doctor who made it happen. One of the most important books a plant ever inspired. Read the cases and watch a discovery unfold in real time.
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272 chapters
- 1AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE, AND Some of its Medical Uses: WITH PRACTICAL REMARKS ON DROPSY, AND OTHER DISEASES.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4Historical View of the Properties of Digitalis.
- 5The following is an abridged Account of its Effects upon Turkeys.
- 6OF THE PLATE.
- 7EXPLANATION.
- 8FOOTNOTES:
- 9AN ACCOUNT OF THE INTRODUCTION of FOXGLOVE INTO MODERN PRACTICE.
- 10CASES, In which the Digitalis was given by the Direction of the Author.
- 111775.
- 12CASE I.
- 131776. CASE II.
- 14CASE III.
- 15CASE IV.
- 16CASE V.
- 171777. CASE VI.
- 18CASE VII.
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