HALL JACKSON AND THE PURPLE FOXGLOVE. Medical Practice & Research In Revolutionary America 1760 - 1820. by Estes, J. Worth - 1979

University Press of New England:, 1979. 291 pages, illustrated. "Dr. Hall Jackson (1739 -1797), the man responsible for the introduction of digitalis into America, was well-known in New England as both physician and patriot. This account of his professional life weaves two narratives against a background of the medical climate in eighteenth-century America and England- Jackson's medical practice in Portsmouth New Hampshire and the introduction of digitalis into the clinical medicine of the day. His introduction of the foxglove into the therapeutics of eighteenth century America is used as a case history of clinical medicine of the time. There are also valuable insights into eighteenth-century political, military, social, scientific, and intellectual life." FINE- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.