In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...

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Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire story of who you are.