Abstract
OUR knowledge of the action of digitalis on the heart was fouded by William Withering, of Birmingham, whose classical treatise was published in 1785. Since that time, owing to the multiplicity and scope of the researches of an ever-increasing number of workers, the literature of the subject has reached such proportions that an attempt to collect together and analyse the results achieved appears already overdue. Prof. Cushny has undertaken this arduous task in compiling the monograph under notice, in which the knowledge acquired during thirty years of personal research is embodied in a critical account of the whole subject, from the time when digitalis was first employed in heart disease up to the present day.
The Action and Uses in Medicine of Digitalis and its Allies.
By Prof. Arthur R. Cushny. Pp. xi + 303. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.) 18s. net.
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The Action and Uses in Medicine of Digitalis and its Allies . Nature 116, 8–9 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116008a0
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