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Dr. Robert A. Johnson peculated that previous digitalis studies had indicated a much higher effectiveness for the drug because they had not completely controlled experimental conditions.
The popular drug digitalis may be ineffective for as many as half the heart failure patients who take it, indicates a study released Wednesday by a cardiology research team from Massachusetts General Hospital. Harvard's primary teaching hospital.
The study's conclusion is the first to question the merits of the widely-used drug--an extract from the foxglove plant--which has been used against heart disease since the late 18th century Digitalis is now prescribed to over one million patients in the synthetic form dixogen.
Dr. Thomas Courtney Lee of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., offers yet another possibility. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, he suggests Van Gogh suffered from unintentional digitalis poisoning. Lee's evidence is tenable although admittedly circumstantial. Digitalis, a heart stimulant, was a treatment for epilepsy...
People around Feather Falls remember when anyone who got seriously injured was likely to be strapped into a canoe for a bumpy 20-mile ride down the lumber flume to the Marysville hospital. Those less ill were treated by the Widow Griffith-until she died at the age of 98...