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An Account of the Foxglove and some of its
by William Withering
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Title: An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases
Author: William Withering
Release Date: March 21, 2008 [EBook #24886]
Language: English
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE, AND Some of its Medical Uses: WITH PRACTICAL REMARKS ON DROPSY, AND OTHER DISEASES.
BY
WILLIAM WITHERING, M. D.
Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham.
---- nonumque prematur in annum.
HORACE.
BIRMINGHAM: PRINTED BY M. SWINNEY; FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. M,DCC,LXXXV.
PREFACE.
After being frequently urged to write upon this subject, and as often declining to do it, from apprehension of my own inability, I am at length compelled to take up the pen, however unqualified I may still feel myself for the task.
The use of the Foxglove is getting abroad, and it is better the world should derive some instruction, however imperfe