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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL.: cf. F.

digitale

. So named (according to Linnæus) from its finger-shaped corolla.]

(Bot.)

A genus of plants of the family

Schrophulariaceae

, including the foxglove.

(Med.)

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (

Digitalis purpurea

), formerly used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc. Its use has been largely replaced by that of the pure active ingredient,

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