Cardiac Glycosides
- 11 January 1962
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 266 (2) , 88-89
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196201112660210
Abstract
IT is now a hundred and seventy-six years since William Withering's little book, An Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its Medicinal Uses: With practical remarks on dropsy and other diseases,1 was published. This book, a pharmacologic classic, was written partly to relate Withering's experiences with digitalis over a ten-year period and partly as a protest against the abuses concerning its use that were already creeping in. Certainly, it served to call this perhaps most useful drug of all times to the attention of the medical world. Although there is some evidence that digitalis was used intermittently in . . .Keywords
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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.Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1785