The Withering Rate by Through-Flow Withering

Withering away, weakly

One of the reasons provided for the shift away from an ontology for physical reality of material objects & properties towards one of physical structures & relations (Ontological Structural Realism: OntSR) is that the quantum-mechanical description of composite physical systems of similar elementary particles entails they are indiscernible. As material objects, they ‘whither away’, andwhen they ...

A withering political climate

relentlessly expanding toward the coast of Louisiana, where it reached the shoreline earlier this month, Mississippi, and adjoining states. The spill raises the prospect of extensive damage to the local fish and shellfish industries, and to the economy as a whole, in a region still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. Already, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...

William Withering and the foxglove

constantly threatening him with death. The irony is that it is precisely that control over nature through scientific knowledge which he wanted to achieve so desperately in order to be able to lead a secured and civilised life, which is now threatening mankind with the very destruction with which it once felt threatened by nature. Here we find an identification being made between the modern medi...

Digitalis and William Withering, the clinical investigator.

W ILLIAM WITHERING began to use digitalis for dropsical cases during 1775. The first recorded use of digitalis was on December 8 of that year when he administered a "decoction of fol. digital." to a man about 50 years of age who complained "of an asthma." As a result of the therapy, the patient "made a large quantity of water," " His breath gradually drew easier, his belly subsided, and in abou...

William Withering and digitalis, 1785 to 1985.