Withers, Major

In 1785 William Withering showed that an extract from foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) was beneficial for treating people with heart problems. The majority of cures for disease in our present society have come from nature either by extracting the active components from the plants or by mimicking them using chemical synthesis. Both of these are very fruitful areas of research.1... 

Withers, R.M.J., and F.P.Lees. 1985. The assessment of major hazards The lethal toxicity of chlorine. Part 1. Review of information on toxicity. J. Hazard. Mater. 12 231—282. 

Weisaeth L Psychological and psychiatric aspects of technological disasters, in Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster The Structure of Human Chaos. Edited by Ursano RJ, McCaughey BG, Fullerton CS. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp 72-102 Weissman HN Distortions and deceptions in self presentation effects of protracted litigation in personal injury cases. Behav Sci Law 8 67-74,1990 Wessely S Mass hysteria two syndromes Psychol Med 17 109-120,1987 Withers J Major Industrial Hazards Their Appraisal and Control. New York, Halsted Press, 1988... 

Tea flavor. Primary and secondary flavor compounds (more than 300) contribute to the flavor of black tea, which is otherwise strongly influenced by its origin or production procedures (withering, fermentation, roasting). A major contribution is made by components with flowery notes such as geraniol, linalool, citronel-lol, 2-phenylethanol, and a-//3- ionones, as well as (Z)-jasmone, methyl jasmonate, d- jasmin(c) lactone, and methyl anthranilate as trace components. Green notes such as 2- and 3- hexen-l-ols, (E)-2-... 

Root and rhizome of Sanguisorba officinalis L. or its variety, 5. officinalis L. var. longifolia (Bert.) Yu et Li (Family Rosaceae), a sturdy perennial with deep red or purplish spikes, also known as salad bumet or bumet-blood-wort, native to Eurasia, widely distributed in China, and can now also be found in the United States from Maine to Minnesota. Root with rhizome is collected in spring before budding or in autumn after aboveground parts have withered, rid of rootlets, washed and dried or first sliced and then dried. Major production in China is along eastern coastal and adjacent provinces. 

Like all the photosynthetic organisms of the brown lineage, Chrysophyceae contain chlorophyll a and perhaps chlorophylls c, but this situation does not seem to have been definitively established (Morris, 1968 Meeks, 1974). P-Carotene is always present, and the majority of xanthophylls are fiicoxanthin, diatoxanthin, and diadinoxanthin (Liaaen-Jensen, 1978 Withers et al, 1981). Some minor xanthophylls identified in several species have been gathered together in Appendix lO.A. 

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