
Episode 4 - Digitalis and Van Gogh
The Curious Clinicians
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The Effects of Digitallis on Vision
I think digitallis back then was kind of like a silver bullet. Like, you know, you've got some weird symptom, let's give you digitallis and then we'll give you mercury. So, it's sort of like the doxy of the Arab. I am convinced that Van Gogh at least saw fox glove at some point because he painted it. But it still seems kind oflike a jump to go from Digoxin as a treatment to it seriously affected his art.
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