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Superstitions & Folk Belief

An Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its Medical Uses

by William Withering

The Birmingham physician's report on ten years of clinical use of foxglove in treating dropsy, a landmark in the history of pharmacology. Withering's brief mention of a Shropshire family recipe later grew into a popular legend about folk medicine vindicated by science.

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