Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including opium, aspirin, digitalis, and quinine.
It transpired that the actual cause of death was poisoning from lethal amounts of the drug digitalis, extracted from one of the foxglove family of plants.
Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including aspirin, digitalis, quinine, and opium.