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Purple foxglove

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  • An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases / By William Withering.
  • Anatomy and botany: top left, arteries in thorax and abdomen; top right, superior section of the brain; centre left, lateral distortion owing to chronic pleurisy; centre right, part of the lung; bottom, foxglove and aconite. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases / By William Withering.
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    An account of the foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases. By William Withering, M.D. Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham.

    Withering, William, 1741-1799. | Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]
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    The activity of wild american digitalis / by George B. Roth.

    Roth, George B. | Date: 1917
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    Observations on the medical and domestic management of the consumptive : on the powers of digitalis purpurea; and on the cure of schrophula / By Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

    Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808. | Date: 1803
  • view Anatomy and botany: top left, arteries in thorax and abdomen; top right, superior section of the brain; centre left, lateral distortion owing to chronic pleurisy; centre right, part of the lung; bottom, foxglove and aconite. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
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    Anatomy and botany: top left, arteries in thorax and abdomen; top right, superior section of the brain; centre left, lateral distortion owing to chronic pleurisy; centre right, part of the lung; bottom, foxglove and aconite. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

    | Date: [between 1834 and 1837] | Reference: 577933i
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    An inaugural dissertation on digitalis purpurea, or fox-glove; and its use in some diseases: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. By John Moore, of Pennsylvania, Member of the Philadelphia Medical and Chemical Societies.

    Moore, John, M.D. | Date: 1800
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