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fusion.  Some  have  been  affixed  to  mixtures  of  educts,  and  others 
to  products  of  manipulation  so  different,  in  our  opinion,  from  any 
natural  constituent  of  Digitalis  as  to  lead  one  to  wonder  how  the 
Fig.  5.  Digitalis  leaf,  pen  drawing  by  Miss 
Eda  Van  Guelpen,  showing  texture  and  ribs. 
Much  reduced. 
plant  would  view  itself,  could  it  know  that  its  tortured  flesh  had 
given  rise  to  such  a  grotesque  litter  of  abnormal,  misnamed  crea- 
tions. 
Up  to  the  eighteenth  century  nothing  of  consequence  chemically 
