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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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    De l'hydropisie de poitrine et des palpitations du coeur : promptement dissipées par la digitale pourprée / par J.B. Comte.

    Comte, J. B., 1766- | Date: 1822
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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
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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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    Die Geschichte der Digitalis purpurea und ihre Bedeutung in der Medizin bis etwa zum Jahre 1870 / Rainer Stenius.

    Stenius, Rainer. | Date: 1916
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