Digitalis vs Strophanthus - What's the difference?
digitalis | strophanthus |
A genus of herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea .
* James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier'' in 1834 , ''The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement , volume 19,
* 1836 , Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine , volume 4,
* 1903 , American Florist , volume 19,
A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 188:
* 2001 , Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2001, p. 25:
Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus , some of which yield arrow poisons
As proper nouns the difference between digitalis and strophanthus
is that digitalis is while strophanthus is .digitalis
English
(wikipedia digitalis)Noun
(en-noun)page 210:
- 11. Delphiniums and digitalises .
page 133:
- At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales , conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
page 555:
- Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises , gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time
- ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
- The ancient remedy digitalis , extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
