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  • Rehmannia Angulata (Chinese Foxglove)
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray
  • Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)
  • Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)
  • Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)
  • Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)
  • Digitalis lanata (Woolly foxglove)
  • Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): infloresence and separate leafy stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • An account of the foxglove / by William Withering.
  • An account of the foxglove / by William Withering.
  • Six different foxglove plants (Digitalis species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis obscura L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis parviflora Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases / By William Withering.
  • An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases / By William Withering.
  • Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Girls harvesting foxgloves
  • 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.
  • Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Rehmannia angulata (Oliv.)Hemsl. Scrophulariaceae Chinese foxglove. Distribution: China. Named for Joseph Rehmann ((1753-1831) German physician (Stearn, 1994) who emigrated to St Petersburg and became the personal physician to Tsar Nicholas 1. Rehmannia glutinosa is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for arthritis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • William Withering, portrait (top, in oval), and Withering analysing the waters of the Queen's Bath (Caldas de Rainha) at the request of the Portugese Court (below, vignette). Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1801, after C. F. von Breda.
  • William Withering, portrait (top, in oval), and Withering analysing the waters of the Queen's Bath (Caldas de Rainha) at the request of the Portugese Court (below, vignette). Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1801, after C. F. von Breda.
  • William Withering, portrait (top, in oval), and Withering analysing the waters of the Queen's Bath (Caldas de Rainha) at the request of the Portugese Court (below, vignette). Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1801, after C. F. von Breda.
  • William Withering, portrait (top, in oval), and Withering analysing the waters of the Queen's Bath (Caldas de Rainha) at the request of the Portugese Court (below, vignette). Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1801, after C. F. von Breda.