William Withering
William Withering (March 17th 1741 - October 6th 1799) is a Médecin and a British Botaniste , famous for its discovery of the Digitaline.
After its studies of Medicine at the university of Edinburgh, he works with the general hospital of Birmingham starting from 1779. It is reported that Withering notes that the state of the one of its patients, reached Hydropisie, improves considerably after the administration of a mixture of plants. Withering studies this mixture then and isolates the active ingredient contained in sheets from Digitale S which it names digitalin according to its name. In 1785, Withering publishes the description of its clinical trials and the indication on the toxicity of digitalin in An Account off the Foxglove and nap off its Medical Use .
He lives with Edgbaston Hall (transformed today into club of Golf club and into a Natural reserve), with Birmingham and was one of the members of the Lunar Society.
He published a Flore British which had a great influence and knew many republications, certain posthumous. Lastly, it has the appearance of a pioneer in the determination of the Champignon S. Withering is famous also to have given up the system linnéen because this one using of the sexual metaphors to characterize the various plants is improper for the women, many to be interested then in the Botanique.
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