An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses / With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases
WILLIAM WITHERING, M. D. Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham.
—— nonumque prematur in annum.
Horace.
BIRMINGHAM: PRINTED BY M. SWINNEY; FOR G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London.
M,DCC,LXXXV.
After being frequently urged to write upon this subject, and as often declining to do it, from apprehension of my own inability, I am at length compelled to take up the pen, however unqualified I may still feel myself for the task.
The use of the Foxglove is getting abroad, and it is better the world should derive some instruction, however imperfect, from my experience, than that the lives of men should be hazarded by its unguarded exhibition, or that a medicine of so much efficacy should be condemned and rejected as dangerous and unmanageable.
It is now about ten years since I first began to use this medicine. Experience and cautious attention gradually taught me how to use it. For the last two years I have not had occasion to alter the modes of management; but I am still far from thinking them perfect.
It would have been an easy task to have given select cases, whose successful treatment would have spoken strongly in favour of the medicine, and perhaps been flattering to my own reputation. But Truth and Science would condemn the procedure. I have therefore mentioned every case in which I have prescribed the Foxglove, proper or improper, successful or otherwise. Such a conduct will lay me open to the censure of those who are disposed to censure, but it will meet the approbation of others, who are the best qualified to be judges.
To the Surgeons and Apothecaries, with whom I am connected in practice, both in this town and at a distance, I beg leave to make this public acknowledgment, for the assistance they so readily afforded me, in perfecting some of the cases, and in communicating the events of others.
The ages of the patients are not always exact, nor would the labour of making them so have been repaid by any useful consequences. In a few instances accuracy in that respect was necessary, and there it has been attempted; but in general, an approximation towards the truth, was supposed to be sufficient.
William Withering
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Historical View of the Properties of Digitalis.
The following is an abridged Account of its Effects upon Turkeys.
EXPLANATION.
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1775.
CASE I.
CASE III.
CASE IV.
CASE V.
CASE VII.
CASE IX.
CASE X.
CASE XI.
CASE XII.
CASE XIII.
CASE XV.
CASE XVI.
CASE XVII.
CASE XVIII.
CASE XIX.
1779.
CASE XX.
CASE XXI.
CASE XXII.
CASE XXV.
CASE XXVII.
CASE XXIX.
CASE XXX.
CASE XXXII.
CASE XXXV.
CASE XXXVI.
CASE XXXVII.
CASE XXXVIII.
CASE XXXIX.
CASE XL.
CASE XLI.
CASE XLII.
INTERVALS.
CASE XLIV.
CASE XLV.
CASE XLVI.
CASE XLVIII.
CASE XLIX.
CASE L.
CASE LI.
CASE LII.
CASE LIII.
CASE LIV.
CASE LV.
CASE LVI.
CASE LVII.
CASE LIX.
CASE LX.
CASE LXII.
CASE LXIII.
CASE LXIV.
CASE LXV.
CASE LXVI.
CASE LXVII.
CASE LXVIII.
CASE LXX.
CASE LXXI.
CASE LXXII.
CASE LXXIII.
CASE LXXIV.
CASE LXXV.
CASE LXXVI.
CASE LXXVII.
CASE LXXVIII.
CASE LXXIX.
CASE LXXX.
CASE LXXXI.
CASE LXXXII.
CASE LXXXIV.
CASE LXXXV.
CASE LXXXVI.
CASE LXXXVII.
CASE LXXXVIII.
CASE LXXXIX.
CASE XC.
CASE XCI.
CASE XCII.
CASE XCIII.
CASE XCIV.
CASE XCV.
CASE XCVI.
CASE XCVII.
CASE XCVIII.
CASE XCIX.
CASE C.
CASE CI.
CASE CIII.
CASE CIV.
CASE CV.
CASE CVI.
CASE CVII.
1783.
CASE CVIII.
CASE CIX.
CASE CX.
CASE CXI.
CASE CXII.
CASE CXIII.
CASE CXIV.
CASE CXV.
CASE CXVI.
CASE CXVII.
CASE CXVIII.
CASE CXIX.
CASE CXX.
CASE CXXI.
CASE CXXII.
CASE CXXIV.
CASE CXXV.
CASE CXXVI.
CASE CXXVII.
CASE CXXVIII.
CASE CXXIX.
CASE CXXX.
CASE CXXXI.
CASE CXXXII.
CASE CXXXIII.
CASE CXXXIV.
CASE CXXXV.
CASE CXXXVI.
CASE CXXXVII.
CASE CXXXVIII.
CASE CXXXIX.
CASE CXL.
CASE CXLI.
CASE CXLII.
CASE CXLIII.
CASE CXLIV.
CASE CXLV.
CASE CXLVI.
CASE CXLVII.
CASE CXLVIII.
CASE CL.
CASE CLII.
CASE CLIII.
CASE CLIV.
CASE CLV.
CASE CLVI.
1785.
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CASE CLVII.
CASE CLVIII.
CASE CLIX.
CASE CLX.
CASE CLXII.
CASE CLXIII.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. Causer.
CASE.
CASE I.
CASE II.
CASE I.
CASE II.
CASE III.
CASE IV.
CASE V.
CASE VI.
CASE VII.
CASE VIII.
CASE IX.
CASE X.
CASE XI.
CASE XII.
CASE XIII.
CASE XIV.
CASE XV.
CASE XVI.
CASE XVII.
CASE XVIII.
CASE XIX.
CASE XX.
CASE XXI.
CASE XXII.
CASE XXIII.
CASE XXIV.
REMARKS.
REMARKS.
CASE II.
CASE I.
CASE II.
CASE III.
CASE I.
CASE II.
CASE III.
CASE I.
CASE II.
CASE III.
CASE IV.
CASE V.
CASE VI.
CASE VII.
CASE VIII.
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ANASARCA.
ASCITES.
ASCITES and ANASARCA.
ASCITES, ANASARCA, and HYDROTHORAX.
ASTHMA.
ASTHMA and ANASARCA.
ASTHMA and ASCITES.
ASTHMA, ASCITES, and ANASARCA.
EPILEPSY.
HYDATID DROPSY.
HYDROCEPHALUS.
HYDROTHORAX.
HYDROTHORAX and ANASARCA.
INSANITY.
NEPHRITIS CALCULOSA.
OVARIUM DROPSY.
OVARIUM DROPSY with ANASARCA.
PHTHISIS PULMONALIS.
PUERPERAL ANASARCA.
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