The use of D. purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in the English-speaking medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility ( it is a positive inotrope ) and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in the irregular ( and often fast ) atrial fibrillation.

Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.

William Withering – like Small a physician – was already an acquaintance of Darwin, Boulton and Wedgwood when he moved from Stafford to Birmingham and became a member of the Society in 1776.

The botanist and physician Jonathan Stokes, who had known William Withering as a child, moved to Stourbridge and started attending Lunar Society meetings from 1783.

Clinical pharmacology owes much of its foundation to the work of William Withering.

William Withering ( 17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799 ) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.

Withering wrote two more editions of this work in 1787 and 1792, in collaboration with fellow Lunar Society member Jonathan Stokes, and after his death his son ( also William ) published four more.

The William Withering Chair in Medicine at the University of Birmingham Medical School is named after him, as is the medical school's annual William Withering Lecture.

William Withering analysing thermal waters in Portugal He was an enthusiastic chemist and geologist.

William Withering of Birmingham.

William Withering and the Foxglove.

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After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.

* A week after his death, the former William J. Bogan Junior College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, was renamed as the Richard J. Daley College in his honor.

* October 2, 1942: New York City, New York “ Erwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher of William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by a youth ...

* October 17, 1961: Denver, Colorado Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School.

Schools in Thurrock include ; The Ockendon Academy, Chafford Hundred Campus, Gable Hall School, Gateway Academy, Grays Convent High School, William Edwards School & Sports College, Grays School Media Arts College, Deneholm Primary, Little Thurrock Primary, Quarry Hill Infant and Junior, St Thomas Of Canterbury Catholic Primary, Stifford Clays Infant and Junior, Stifford Primary, Thameside Infant and Junior School, Tudor Court Primary School, Warren Primary School, Chafford Hundred Primary School, Woodside Primary School ( which was opened in 1952 as Tyrell's Infant and Junior Schools, the names being changed to avoid confusion with the neighbouring Torell's Secondary School ; the schools were later amalgamated into one primary school ) and Treetops School.

* William " Junior " Williams

The Shelby County Historical Society operates the William A. Ross Junior Historical Society at 201 N. Main Street in Sidney.

From 1952 Burke attended the Mayer Sulzberger Junior High School at 701 – 741 North 48th Street in the Mill Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia, where he was a member of a choir organized by Miss Joy Goings, that included McCoy Tyner ; three future members of The Castelles: George Grant, Billy Taylor and Octavius Anthony ; Lee Andrews ; William " Sonny " Gordon, later of the Angels and The Turbans, who lived a couple of houses from Burke ; George Tindley of the Dreams ; and George Pounds, Karl English, and Melvin Story of the Cherokees.

During these years Molson and his wife had four children, John Junior Jr, Thomas ( who died shortly after birth ), another Thomas, and William ( aka.

In 1955 the name of Fort Smith Junior High School was changed to William O. Darby Junior School in honor of General Darby who led troops in Africa and Italy during World War II.

They applied for a federal charter for the foundation in the US Senate in 1910, with at one stage Junior even secretly meeting with President William Howard Taft, through the aegis of Senator Nelson Aldrich, to hammer out concessions.

On May 14, 1913, New York Governor William Sulzer approved a state charter for the foundation-two years after the Carnegie Corporation-with Junior becoming the first president.

After competing at William Tennent, Cintron wrestled at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology a Junior College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

* Frederick E Rose ( London ) Ltd v William H Pim Junior & Co Ltd 2 QB 450, is an English contract law case where the two litigants had both mistaken feveroles for ordinary horse beans.

Annually-held debates and oratory contests include the Lynde Prize Debate, the Class of 1876 Memorial Prize for Debate in Politics, the Maclean Prize and Junior Orator Awards, the Walter E. Hope Prizes in Speaking and Debating, the Spencer Trask Medals for Debating, and the William Rusher ’ 44 Prize in Debating.

According to Maori sources William Junior and Mrs Sarah Fox, who had no children, became very close.

In 1875 The Fox family took William Junior on a world tour-San Francisco by paddle steamer, then across the USA and onto Great Britain to visit Fox relatives.

He began his military career in 1672, as a Junior Lieutenant in Sir William Lockhart's Scots Regiment.

In 1978, State Senator William A. Craven ( 1921 – 1999 ) of Carlsbad won $ 250, 000 in state funding for a North County satellite campus of San Diego State University, which opened at Lincoln Junior High School in Vista with an enrollment of 148 students.

The name Carboniferous means " coal-bearing " and derives from the Latin words carbo ( coal ) and ferre ( to carry ), and was coined by geologists William Conybeare and William Phillips in 1822.

In 1822 William Herbert, a visitor to Harmony, Indiana, described the new brick church and the Harmonists ' craftsmanship:

* 1822 – Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.

" In 1822 Polk resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.

* 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

Champollion, in 1822, saw copies of the brief hieroglyphic and Greek inscriptions of the Philae obelisk, on which William John Bankes had tentatively noted the names " Ptolemaios " and " Kleopatra " in both languages.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* November 15 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer ( d. 1822 )

The hypothesis that the troubadour tradition was created, more or less, by William after his experience of Moorish arts while fighting with the Reconquista in Spain was also championed by Ramón Menéndez Pidal in the early twentieth-century, but its origins go back to the Cinquecento and Giammaria Barbieri ( died 1575 ) and Juan Andrés ( died 1822 ).

Duval County was established in 1822, and is named for William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834.

It was named for William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834.

In the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Cromwell Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols ( 1822 ), William B. Sandys's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), and Thomas K. Hervey's The Book of Christmas ( 1837 ).

William Hendricks was a successful politician who was Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825 and a Senator from Indiana from 1825 to 1837.

A group of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, headed by William Little, built a fort at the present site of Richmond around 1822.

Henry Poston, John Andrews, William Alexander and James Holbert were appointed commissioners to locate the county seat, and on September 22, 1822, D. Murphy donated of land for that purpose which the county court accepted on February 27, 1823.

The county was named for William Jones Lowndes ( 1782 – 1822 ), a prominent South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes, had been a Revolutionary War leader.

* William Harrow, ( 1822 – 1871 ), Union general in the Civil War.

* William Harrow, ( 1822 – 1871 ), Union general in the American Civil War.

* William Taylor Adams, ( 1822 – 1897 ), author under the name " Oliver Optic "

* William Taylor Adams, ( 1822 – 1897 ), author under the name " Oliver Optic ".

Lexington, Missouri, located on the bluffs of the Missouri River, was platted in 1822, near William Jack's Ferry, which had been established three years earlier on the south bank of the river.

Farmington was established in 1822 after its agricultural history and was previously known as Murphy's Settlement for William Murphy of Kentucky who first visited the site in 1798.