FOR almost two hundred years digitalis has been so essential and effective in cardiac therapy that it has been called the most useful drug of all times. Despite widespread and skillful clinical use ...

Trimble lecture before Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland at Baltimore, April 26, 1932. Christian — Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Harvard University. For ...

February 27, 2004-- The beta-blocker carvedilol in combination with digoxin seems "generally superior" to either carvedilol or digoxin alone and should be considered "the standard treatment" for heart ...

Patients taking digoxin to control atrial fibrillation face a 27 percent greater risk of dying than atrial fibrillation patients who are not taking digoxin, according to an analysis of 19 studies ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) who are given digoxin to control their symptoms have an increased risk of death, whether or not they have a diagnosis of heart failure, compared with patients ...

IN his Lane Lectures on pharmacology, Prof. W. Straub, of Munich, discusses certain problems of general interest in the chemistry, synthesis, and action of drugs (Stanford University Publications: ...