But it’s a Scottish doctor named William Withering who is credited with pioneering the use of the plants’ extracts for heart problems. In 1775, ...

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 ...

MARCH 17 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Dr. William Withering, who was celebrated alike as physician, botanist and mineralogist. He was born at Wellington, Shropshire, the only son of ...

IN 1785 William Withering, in his famous book entitled "An Account of the Foxglove," writing concerning the effects of digitalis (page 184), said that "the foxglove when given in very large and qui ...

Digoxin is one of the oldest drugs in the cardiovascular arsenal, derived from the foxglove plant and first described in the 18th century by William Withering. It is frequently used in patients ...

This article was originally published with the title “ William Withering and the Purple Foxglove ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 212 No. 6 (June 1965), p. 110 doi:10.1038 ...

In 1770s, the physician William Withering heard that an old lady in Shropshire could cure dropsy — an accumulation of fluids in the body — with a botanical mixture including the foxglove flower.

William's withering private verdict on Harry's tell-all memoir, as revealed by royal confidant GYLES BRANDRETH - who says the late Queen would have been 'appalled' at what her grandson laid bare ...

THE June issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine contains an interesting notice by Drs. Ruth Musser and John C. Krantz, jun., on the friendship of William Withering and Erasmus Darwin. In ...

Former Attorney General William Barr praised President Donald Trump’s “very successful administration” — and offered scathing criticism of his former boss during a South Florida appearance ...

An ‘American Masters’ presentation on PBS traces the intellectual and political life of William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review magazine and the droll but generous host of ‘Firing ...