Digitalis Purpurea Tapestries

Black and white photograph of close and selective focus on purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) in full bloom growing in an English country garden

Popularly known as foxglove, digitalis is the source of the cardiac glycoside digitalis. Described in the English literature in 1785 by William Withering (the tale is that an old maid of Shropshire knew a cure for dropsy, or edema -- one finding in heart failure), digitalis has been used in the treatment of cardiac diseases since. Its use has declined as the therapeutic window (the range between a therapeutic response and toxicity) is quite narrow. In my early days as an internist, titrating patients with digitalis and recognizing how not to poison them was a skill that internists learned. Now, not so much -- better therapies for heart failure exist. The purple color here is striking. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis" ...

Beautiful but deadly. Can kill and can cure.

n-dee s. Image no. 122 - 2017-11-21

Foxgloves pattern dark

The red foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

Wildflowers In A Field, Mount Rainier National Park

Design inspired by the beginning of the beautiful and beautiful flowers during spring.

Botanical illustration of the Common foxglove from the 19th century.

Foxglove (digitalis purpurea) growing and glowing in a huge glass greenhouse

Common Pink Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea flower

Purple foxglove (digitalis purpurea) as seen through a curl in a gate by Nalinne Jones.

Hand-drawn Foxglove Flower

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Foxglove flower in Finnish summer

Foxglove flower in Finnish summer

Digitalis flower in Finnish summer

Foxgloves pattern

Digitally drawn pink foxglove