Digitalis Definition

Digitalis Sentence Examples

• To preserve the colour of flowers pledgets of cotton wool, which prevent bruising, should be introduced between them, as also, if the stamens are thick and succulent, as in Digitalis, between these and the corolla.

• The leaves of the foxglove, gathered from wild plants when about two-thirds of their flowers are expanded, deprived usually of the petiole and the thicker part of the midrib, and dried, constitute the drug digitalis or digitalis folia of the Pharmacopoeia.

• Digitalis contains four important glucosides, of which three are cardiac stimulants.

• Digitalis leaves have no definite external action.

• The clinical influence of digitalis upon the heart is very well defined.