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Title: An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases

Author: William Withering

Release Date: March 21, 2008 [EBook #24886]

Language: English

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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, 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.

PREFACE.

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 sti