TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chronic heart failure A1 - Murtagh, John A1 - Rosenblatt, Jill A1 - Coleman, Justin A1 - Murtagh, Clare PY - 2018 T2 - Murtagh's General Practice, 7e AB - In the year 1775 my opinion was asked concerning a family recipe for the cure of the dropsy. I was told that it had long been kept a secret by an old woman in Shropshire who had sometimes made cures after the more regular practitioners had failed—this medicine was composed of twenty or more different herbs and the active herb could be no other than the Foxglove.WILLIAM WITHERING (1741–99), ON THE USE OF FOXGLOVE (DIGITALIS) IN THE TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASE SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd CY - Sydney, Australia Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - murtagh.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157388530 ER -