Volume 1

An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases / By William Withering.

  • Withering, William, 1741-1799.
Date:
1785
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses: with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases / By William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is now about ten years fince I firft be- gan to ule this medicine. “Experience “and cautious. attention gradually taught me how to ufe it. For the laft two years I have not had occafion to alter the modes of manage- ment; but I am Mtill far from -thinking them pertegizs | It would have been.an. eafy.tafk to have given felect cafes, whofe fuccefsful treatment would haye fpoken ftrongly in favour of the medicine, and perhaps been flattering to my own reputation, But Truth and Science would condemn the procedure. I have therefore mentioned every cafe in which I have prefcribed the Foxglove, proper or im- proper, fuccefsful or otherwife. Such>a conduct will lay me open to the cenfure of thofe who are difpofed to cenfure, but it will meet the approbation of others, who are the beft qualified to be judges. - To the Surgeons and Apothecaries, with whom I am connected'in practice, both in this town and at a diftance, T beg’ leave to ae ~' make