Genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae

Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.

Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.

A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.

Digitalis purpurea (Purple foxglove)

Digitalis lanata (Woolly foxglove)

Girls harvesting foxgloves

Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): infloresence and separate leafy stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Foxglove (Digitalis obscura L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Six different foxglove plants (Digitalis species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.

95 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm

Grundlagen und Ergebnisse der Digitalistherapie : zum 25 jährigen Jubiläum des Digalen "Roche" 1904/1929 / Wissenschaftliche Abteilung der F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. A.G.

Digitalis intoxication / by Edward K. Chung.

352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.

Digitalis : Geschichte, Biologie, Biochemie, Chemie, Physiologie, Molekularbiologie, Pharmakologie, medizinische Anwendung / von Martin Luckner und Max Wichtl.

Experiments to determine the influence of digitalis on normal temperatures and its action as an antipyretic in typhoid fever / by Joseph Leidy, Jr.

Medical histories and reflections / By John Ferriar.

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Grundlagen und Ergebnisse der Digitalistherapie : zum 25 jährigen Jubiläum des Digalen "Roche" 1904/1929 / Wissenschaftliche Abteilung der F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. A.G.

Digitalis intoxication / by Edward K. Chung.

Digitalis : Geschichte, Biologie, Biochemie, Chemie, Physiologie, Molekularbiologie, Pharmakologie, medizinische Anwendung / von Martin Luckner und Max Wichtl.

Experiments to determine the influence of digitalis on normal temperatures and its action as an antipyretic in typhoid fever / by Joseph Leidy, Jr.

Medical histories and reflections / By John Ferriar.

Digitalis

Images from the collections

Images referencing Digitalis

Works from the collections

Grundlagen und Ergebnisse der Digitalistherapie : zum 25 jährigen Jubiläum des Digalen "Roche" 1904/1929 / Wissenschaftliche Abteilung der F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. A.G.

Digitalis intoxication / by Edward K. Chung.

Digitalis : Geschichte, Biologie, Biochemie, Chemie, Physiologie, Molekularbiologie, Pharmakologie, medizinische Anwendung / von Martin Luckner und Max Wichtl.

Experiments to determine the influence of digitalis on normal temperatures and its action as an antipyretic in typhoid fever / by Joseph Leidy, Jr.

Medical histories and reflections / By John Ferriar.

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