plant
Foxglove
Foxglove as a plant people have named and used. Heart measure, tall bell, careful dose — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Foxglove is used in Medicine.
Cooley’s Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts seats Foxglove among the tools, materials, or practices of medical and pharmacy use. Foxglove used in that craft path, not a bare synonym for medicine and not a modern brand SKU dump.
from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)
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Five hundred is opposed to Foxglove.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, birds may eat seeds of nettles while the seeds of the foxglove will poison them — foxglove seed is the poison keep-apart in that feed note.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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sources
- Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts · Arnold James Cooley
Arnold James Cooley, Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts (6th ed.).
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).