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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

— William Withering, 1785. Since 1785, when Sir William Withering published his treatise on the use of foxglove (see Figure), our perspective on the use of digitalis has continued to change.