Digitalin

Foxgloves contain digitalin, one of whose effects is to make the heart muscle pump harder - potentially useful in cases of congestive heart failure, but fatal in overdose. ❋ Carla (2008)

The latter were filled with a small amount of digitalin, which was not enough to cause any problems, and a massive amount of atropine. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (2002)

I gave him an intramuscular injection of digitalin and another of morphine hydrochloride, which he accepted with apparent pleasure as part of the game. ❋ Herriot, James (1995)

Futile or not, I rummaged through the contents of my case for the digitalin I had made for him. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

It wasn't digitalin, but his purpose that sustained him now, lighting him with a glow as though a candle burned behind the waxy skin of his face. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

Mightn't digitalin have been used just for that reason, that it was available to everyone? ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)

The only thing they did not agree on was whether the digitalin was sufficient to cause death. ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)

Or had she deliberately kept me down there, knowing more about the effects of digitalin than I? ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)

Then I picked up a torn prescription with a very strong dose of digitalin in it. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1984)

Digitalin is a medicine but it couldn't be Mrs Clapperton's because digitalin 'dilates the pupils of the eyes. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1984)

Part of a prescription, he noted, containing digitalin. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1984)

I had assumed that the digitalin must have come from the foxgloves at the foot of the garden. ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)

There was prussic acid poisoning from almonds and digitalin poisoning from purple foxglove. ❋ Robert Sheckley (1966)

The minutest trace of digitalin moistened with sulphuric and treated with bromine vapour gives a rose colour, turning to mauve. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

_Treatment_ consists in lowering the body temperature by application of cold cloths, stimulants, strychnine or digitalin hypodermically. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Contains the glucoside digitalin and other active principles. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Give chloride of ammonium in 30 grain doses to prevent delirium; strychnine or digitalin hypodermically. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Hot water will now dissolve out _picrotoxin_, _colchicin_, and _digitalin_, but not cantharidin. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It is better to use digitalin, one one-hundredth of a grain hypodermically, if possible. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)