Digitalis
- 26 December 1946
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 235 (26), 938-945
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194612262352605
Abstract
IN RECENT years many reports have appeared on new purified digitalis preparations. Revisions have also been made in the U.S.P. unit of potency of digitalis, with changes in the method of assay as well as in the strength of the official preparation. Many cases of severe toxicity from digitalis have recently been reported1 2 3 4 5 that indicate considerable confusion regarding the choice and dose of digitalis substances. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the present status of whole-leaf digitalis and several purified digitalis bodies.AssayIn the twelfth revision (1942) of the United States Pharmacopoeia the cat method of . . .Keywords
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