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In his “An account of the foxglove” William Withering [1] wisely remarked:
“It is much easier to write upon a disease than upon a remedy. The former is in the hands of Nature and a faithful observer with an eye of tolerable judgement cannot fail to delineate a likeness. The latter will ever be subject to the whim, the inaccuracies and the blunder of mankind.”
Medical communication could be fast even in those days; in the year following its publication in Birmingham, a German doctor in Leipzig, Christian Friederich Michaelis, translated Witherings work to German.
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Storstein, L. (1980). Digitoxin in Renal Failure, Pro and Contra. In: Heidland, A., Wetzels, E. (eds) Pharmakotherapie bei Niereninsuffizienz. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67676-5_8
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