An Account of the Foxglove and Its Medical Uses 1785-1985
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 6, 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780192615015
Copyright date: 1986
First sentence: I have written this book to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication in 1785 of William Withering's monograph "An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses: with Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and other Diseases".
Description: This book begins with a facsimile copy of William Withering's 1785 monograph, An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses. The author has added marginal notes (not footnotes) explaining Withering's 18th century terms and names for a modern audience. This is followed by three sections in which the author discusses: the foxglove as a flower and a medicinal herb; uses of the foxglove before Withering; Withering's biography and his discovery of the medicinal use of foxgloves, with statistical analysis of his 163 cases; and finally attitudes to the medicinal use of foxgloves in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is an extensive bibliography.
Notes: Oxford Medical Publications