Observations on the preparation, utility, and administration of the digitalis purpurea, or foxglove, in dropsy of the chest, consumption, hemorrhage, scarlet fever, measles, &c. including a sketch of the medical history of this plant, and an account of the opinions of those authors who have written upon it, during the last thirty years / by William Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, William, 1772-1808.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Observations on the preparation, utility, and administration of the digitalis purpurea, or foxglove, in dropsy of the chest, consumption, hemorrhage, scarlet fever, measles, &c. including a sketch of the medical history of this plant, and an account of the opinions of those authors who have written upon it, during the last thirty years / by William Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    It is greatly to be wished that the eminent bodies appointed to regulate our Pharmaco- poeias would deign to take this important subject into their consideration. The really efficacious and useful medicines to be found in the extensive lists that at present form the Materia Medica, might probably be comprised within a comparatively narrow space; and as simplicity in prescription is fortunately now become common, it would in a great degree facilitate the study of this important branch of * V medicine, were the superabundant articles expunged. To these observations, the Medical History of the Digitalis will form some exception. It has indeed been sufficiently commended, and even extravagantly praised; and to the high-wrought encomiums tiiat have been la- vished upon it at various times, no doubt much of it’s temporary loss of fame and neglect has been owing. But it had, in it’s progress to the important station among the means of curing diseases that it is entitled to occupy, more b2