Name: An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) (en Inglés)
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Author: William Withering
ISBN: 9781108075862

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An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

William Withering

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

236

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108075862

N° edición

Categorías

Antologías: general

An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) (en Inglés)

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In 1775, the physician and botanist William Withering (1741–99) was informed of a folk cure for dropsy that had as its active ingredient the plant foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). Ten years later, after thorough trials on more than 150 patients, Withering published this monograph on the medicinal applications of the plant, not least to keep less experienced doctors from administering it to patients without the proper caution, given the plant's toxicity. Withering was the first doctor to employ foxglove as a remedy for congestive heart failure, which is now the primary disease treated by foxglove-derived pharmaceuticals, and the results from his trials broadly reflect those produced by modern physicians. Withering's first major publication, A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain (1776), which includes observations on the medicinal applications of British plants, is also reissued in this series.