The water-dragon is a nickname of the Caltha palustris, and dragon's-mouth of the Digitalis purpurea.
In France, the digitalis supplies her with gloves, and in days gone by the Convallaria polygonatum was the "Lady's seal.
The medicinal properties of the Digitalis are easily affected by culture.
A similar case is shown by the yellow foxglove or Digitalis parviflora.
A most curious terminal pelory is that of the common foxglove or Digitalis purpurea.
Hoffman cultivated the white flax and many other varieties and Hofmeister extended his sowings [161] over thirty years with the white variety of the yellow foxglove (Digitalis parviflora).
In cases of cardiac disease, with enfeeblement of the heart, dyspnoea, dropsy, and sleeplessness, digitalis is often of the greatest service.
For this purpose digitalis is the most useful stimulant in mitral disease; nitro-glycerine, in aortic valvular lesion.
Digitalis leaf is officinal in most of the pharmacop[oe]ias.
Thirteen of the pills were found in the patient's clothes, and from a chemical and microscopical examination it was found that they contained digitalis leaf in fine powder.
The post-mortem appearances showed nothing referable to digitalis save a few spots of inflammation on the stomach.
Tardieu also attempted to distinguish the symptoms produced by the pharmaceutical preparations of digitalis (the tincture, extract, &c.
The earlier experimenters on the influence ofdigitalis on the heart were Stannius and Traube.
Tincture of digitalis is officinal in our own and all the Continental pharmacop[oe]ias, and an ethereal tincture is used in France and Germany.
In the case of the recruit poisoned by digitalis leaf (p.
It is then certain that although more or less redness of the lining membrane of the intestine track may be present, yet, on the other hand, the active principle of the digitalis may destroy life, and leave no appreciable sign.
And tincture of digitalisin the dose of 30 or 60 drops, though applied in solution, is a considerable time before it produces its effect; though vomiting is instantaneously induced by a nauseous idea, or a nauseous taste in the mouth.
The most manageable method of using digitalis is by making a saturated tincture of it, by infusing two ounces of the powder of the leaves in a mixture of four ounces of rectified spirit of wine, and four ounces of water.
An emetic is said to stop a pulmonary hæmorrhage, which it may effect, as sickness decreases the circulation, as is very evident in the great sickness sometimes produced by too large a dose of digitalis purpurea.
In this kind of dropsy I suspect the digitalis has less or no effect; as it particularly increases the absorption from the lungs.
General and heart stimulants are indicated, such as a drench containingdigitalis 2 drams and alcohol 2 ounces.
When ammonia can not be obtained, an ounce of tincture of digitalis may be given.
Tincture of digitalis one-half ounce and alcohol 2 ounces may be combined with the quinin, according to indications of individual cases.
This is just one expression of the folly which surrounded the use of digitalis at the time of its discovery.
In such cases it is necessary to gain time until digitalis and alcoholics can unfold their action, and here nitrite of amyl stands pre-eminent.
Digitalis and champagne, when administered, were immediately vomited.
Digitalis purpurea), two species of cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense and M.
Of course, van Heerden had stood because under his foot he had crushed the digitalis tablet he had taken from the phial, and for which he had substituted something more deadly.
Digitalis and its allies, strychnine, alcohol, nitrites, iodides and the rest are out of place in such an event.
We may be in difficulty, and we may differ with each other, as to the tension of the patient's pulse and the use of continuing or modifying the digitalis treatment, when all that we have to do is to ascertain the exact degree of diuresis.
How different will treatment be, if ordered on these principles, from the routine procedure of prescribing a little strychnine and digitalis for a man with oppression on exertion and a systolic bruit at the base of his heart!
In this connection let me also say that the most ready and accurate, because measurable, evidence of the action of digitalis in cardiac failure is strangely disregarded in ordinary practice--I mean the volume of the renal secretion.
On the other hand, it is worse than useless to give colchicum, squill and digitalis for the relief of such pains.
It is a common expression from physicians who have tried this remedy to say, ‘Surely I have never used Digitalis before.
That it can materially affect the action of such powerful drugs as squill and digitalis is exceedingly doubtful.
Gastric disturbance is a side action that is inseparable from slight overdosage with all true digitalis bodies and is not in any way due to local gastric action.
The circular which sets forth the asserted advantages of the tablets states that digitalis contains a fat which is an irritant to the gastric membrane.
If these quotations mean anything, they imply that these tablets present a distinct advance in digitalis therapy.
By implication, the claim is made that Digitalysatum is superior to other digitalis preparations in respect to toxicity: “Free from fat, resins and colloidals, it is always well borne and is quickly absorbed and eliminated.
In large doses the action ofdigitalis on the circulation causes various cerebral symptoms, such as seeing all objects blue, and various other disturbances of the special senses.
It is probable that digitalis increases the amount of water rather than that of the urinary solids.
Digitalis is used in therapeutics exclusively for its action on the circulation.
Digitalis was first brought prominently under the notice of the medical profession by Dr W.
Almost equally striking is the fact thatdigitalis causes an irregular pulse to become regular.
The clinical influence of digitalis upon the heart is very well defined.
The initial action of digitalis is a stimulation of the cardiac terminals of the vagus nerves, so that the heart's action is slowed.
These symptoms with more or less gastro-intestinal irritation and decrease in the quantity of urine passed indicate digitalis poisoning.
But digitalis is indicated whenever the heart shows itself unequal to the work it has to perform.
Digitalis contains four important glucosides, of which three are cardiac stimulants.
Traube observed the presence of skin-affection after the use of digitalis in a case of pericarditis.
Kohuhorn mentions a death from what might be called chronic digitalis poisoning.
Tardieu has seen a fluid-dram of the tincture of digitalis cause alarming symptoms in a young woman who was pregnant.
Fusion of one or more flowers is also a common accompaniment of peloria, as in Digitalis purpurea, in which plant prolification often adds increased complexity to the flower.
Such spurs have frequently been seen on the corolla of Digitalis purpurea, Antirrhinum majus,[352] Tulipa Gesneriana, and occasionally on the sepals of Fuchsia.
The common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) has likewise occasionally been observed subject to a similar malformation.
In Digitalis purpurea a similar anomaly is sometimes met with.
I am not, observe, here concerned with the question as to whether the dose of digitalis was judicious or not; the point is, that a farm laborer consulting a herbalist would have been treated in exactly the same way.
Digitalis being a drug labelled as a heart specific by the profession, he promptly administered a stiff dose.
I have an irritable heart, and digitalis helps it.
Digitalis has gone out of favor; how sure are we that Veratrum viride will not be found to do more harm than good in a case of internal inflammation, taking the whole course of the disease into consideration?
A medicine consisting of assimilable substances being then simply unwholesome food, we understand what is meant by those cumulative effects of such remedies often observed, as in the case of digitalis and strychnia.
Vosges digitalis of good quality yields about 1 gram of crystallised digitalin.
The digitalis should be collected in its second year just when the first flowers appear.
Digitalis is an accumulative poison and a powerful stimulant of arterial walls, by experimental evidence an ideal drug for the purpose of increasing blood pressure.
Some one who knew the weakness of Marchant first placed digitalis in his tea.
The normal digitalis flower has a large pendant purple corolla much spotted upon the middle lobe of the larger and lower lip.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digitalis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
