Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)

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.

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray

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