William Withering

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William Withering was an 18th-century English physician and botanist best known for introducing the medical use of digitalis (foxglove) to treat heart disease.

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Label Occurrences
William Withering canonical 8
William Withering Jr. 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Fellow of the Royal Society
botanist
chemist
human
physician
academicDegree MD
birthDate 1741-03-17
birthPlace Wellington, Shropshire
causeOfDeath tuberculosis
centuryOfActivity 18th century
child William Withering self-linksurface differs
surface form: William Withering Jr.
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 1799-10-06
deathPlace Larkfield, near Birmingham
describedAs pioneer in the clinical use of digitalis
educatedAt University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh Medical School
employer Birmingham General Hospital
ethnicGroup English
familyName Withering
fieldOfWork botany
cardiology
medicine
pharmacology
givenName William
hasInfluenced clinical use of cardiac glycosides
development of modern cardiology
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Lunar Society of Birmingham
Royal Society
name William Withering self-link
notableFor introduction of digitalis into medical practice
study of foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
treatment of dropsy (edema) with digitalis
notableWork An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
occupation botanist
chemist
physician
positionHeld physician at Birmingham General Hospital
publicationDate 1785
sexOrGender male
spouse Helena Withering
studied Digitalis purpurea
medicinal plants
workLocation Birmingham
Stafford

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: William Withering
Description of subject: William Withering was an 18th-century English physician and botanist best known for introducing the medical use of digitalis (foxglove) to treat heart disease.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lunar Society of Birmingham hasMember William Withering
William Withering name William Withering self-link
William Withering child William Withering self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: William Withering Jr.
Withering notableBearer William Withering
Larkfield, near Birmingham notableResident William Withering
Helena Withering spouse William Withering
Helena Withering spouseName William Withering
Midlands Enlightenment hasParticipant William Withering