digitalis. He thought it looked like a Fingerhut, or thimble, so he latinized it to digitalis. This perennial is often used to control heart rates. Withering wrote: ‘The leaves – If well dried they readily rub down to a beautiful green powder . . . I give to adults, from one to three grains of this powder twice a day.’]]> William Withering]]> Books]]> digitalis. In Case XLII above, where the patient had pulmonary tuberculosis, there was no relief. In another treatment recorded, Case XLIII, Withering had some success.]]> William Withering]]> Books]]> William Smellie]]> Books]]> Pharmacopoeia.]]> William Salmon]]> Books]]> William Hunter]]> Books]]> Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium, published in 1651, summarizes his work. In it, he discusses conception, embryogenesis, and spontaneous generation. In the frontispiece, we see Zeus opening an egg out of which everything springs: plants, fish, snakes, birds, as well as humans.]]> William Harvey]]> Books]]> Osteographia (1733). Most of the engravings in the volume are quirky. Various animal skeletons are depicted in addition to the human ones. There is no doubt that the engravings are beautifully executed, and the book was large and expensive, with little explanatory text, which suggests that its target was the wealthy ‘general reader’.]]> William Cheselden]]> Books]]> Thomas Willis]]> Books]]> Beagle expedition of 1831-36.]]> Thomas Bell]]> Books]]> Vegetable Staticks, Hales revealed the rising of sap and transpiration (water movement) through leaves. In order to collect the gases given off by plants, he devised a system where gases were passed through a glass tube to a bottle inverted over a water bath. This is now known as the ‘pneumatic trough’ and was used by Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley in their chemical experiments.]]> Stephen Hales]]> Books]]> Sir Charles Hercus, and Sir Gordon Bell]]> Books]]> Sir Charles Hercus, and Sir Gordon Bell]]> Books]]> Sir Charles Hercus, and Sir Gordon Bell]]> Books]]> Santiago Ramón y Cajal]]> Books]]> Robert Liston]]> Books]]> Robert E. Greenspan]]> Books]]> Robert E. Greenspan]]> Books]]> On the Influence of the Sun and Moon upon Human Bodies and the Diseases Arising Therefrom (1704). This page refers to the anatomy of vipers.]]> Richard Mead]]> Books]]> Richard Cork]]> Books]]> Reinier de Graaf]]> Books]]> R.S. Croxson and M.D. Goddard]]> Dissertations]]> Phil A. Silva]]> Reports]]> Peter Henry Buck]]> Books]]> English Physician, a mixture of herbalism and astrology, was published in 1652. This is the 12th edition of 1809. The book is still in print today.]]> Nicholas Culpeper]]> Books]]> Laurence Heister]]> Books]]>