Historical Bibliography Updated: February 9, 2020

An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.

Publication Details

Manchester: Printed by Bowler and Russell & London: For Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1799 CE.

"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it appeared to act directly on the heart" (W. Bruce Fye, Profiles in cardiology, 76).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Thematic Classifications

CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Heart Failure PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Digitalis PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Cardiovascular Medications

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#11592
Permanent Link	https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13791
Author Bio Link	Wikipedia ↗
External URL	an-essay-on-the-medical-properties-of-the-digitalis-purpurea-or-foxglove

Geographic Context

Publication places: Manchester; London