Sidney Steven Clayton was
placed on probation with condi-
tions for three years for sexual
assault,

Gerald Vincent Gonu was
sentenced to three months in jail
and placed on probation for one
year for breaking, entering and
committing an indictable offense.

Friday, February 21

Wayne Samuel Tait was given
two-year suspended jail sentences,
placed on probation and ordered
to perform three, 50-hour periods
of community service work on two
counts of sexual assault and one
count of breaking and entering. .

Peter Jaekstra was fined $300
and sentenced to seven days in
jail for driving while prohibited.

Carlos Manuel Barbosa was
fined $150 for theft.

Kanwarindar Singh was given
two consecutive seven-day jail
sentences on two counts of
assault.

Bryan Thomas Kent was
sentenced to three months in jail
for uttering a forged document.

Nelson Kenneth Azak was
fined $25 for illegal possession of
narcotics,

Monday, February 24

Brian Francis Whalen was
fined $700 and given a one-year
driver’s licence suspension for
impaired driving. Whalen was
also fined $100 for driving with a
blood alcohol content over the
legal limit.

Christopher Paul Hyde was
fined $500 and given a one-year
driver’s licence suspension for
impaired driving.

Tuesday, February 25

Ronald Jason Presby was
fined $200 on each of two counts
of driving a vehicle without hold-
ing the appropriate class of
licence.

Francois Joseph Lemieux was
sentenced to 60 days in jail and
given a one-year driver’s licence
suspension for driving with a
blood alcohol content over the
legal limit.

The Herbarium —

| tant tor c a

Few other medicinal plants
are as famous, important, lovely,
and dangerous as foxglove. Its
powdered green leaves are con-
verted into digitalis, a source of
valuable cardiac medicine. Mil-
lions of heart patients have sur-
vived because of this source.

The first one to discover the
properties of foxglove was an
English physician named William
Withering. In 1775, an old woman
healed a patient in Shropshire,
England, who was ill with excess-
ive fluid retention caused by con-
gestive heart failure.

The woman’s herb bag con-
tained mostly useless weeds.
However, Withering identified
foxglove as the main element that
helped in the treatment of a man
who was expected to die. He also
learned that foxglove is a deadly
poison; it was as likely to stop a
heart as to keep it going. It took
him 10 years of experimenting to
determine the correct dose of this
new drug.

Nowadays, doctors prescribe digi-
talis to strengthen the heart and
to regulate its beat.

Foxglove is an extremely
poisonous plant — it can cause
paralysis and heart failure. It has
killed many people who have
ingested it. One leaf can cause
convulsions and death.

It is not advisable to grow

foxglove in a garden where small
children play. The blossoms are

beautiful and can easily attract a
child.

Foxglove is really a lovely and
stunning biennial, especially
when in bloom, The flowers are

long and bell-shaped. They bear a
resemblance to glove fingers, thus
the name foxglove. Other names
are deadmen’s bells and witch’s
bells. It grows up to eight feet
tall.

The. leaves are lance-shaped
or oval. The fruits are hairy cap-
sules, dry and oval-shaped. They
contain many reddish-brown
seeds. Foxglove is a favourite
among many gardeners. They love
it purely for the attractive, colour-
ful blossoms. It fits in almost any
garden landscape, whether small
or large. It blooms early in sum-
mer and is one of the first plants
that give colour to the garden. By
all means grow it — but only for
ornamental purposes.

William Withering

A young physician in the 18th
century England, Withering stan-
dardized procedures for preparing
and administering the drug digi-
talis in correct doses and gave to
the world the active ingredient,
called digitalin. For a time it was
the main medicine to treat some
kinds of heart diseases.

Despite Withering’s long and
careful clinical tests which proved
both the efficacy and the dangers
of foxglove, his contemporary
peers ignored his findings and
continued to administer it as a
purgative and emetic or as a
sedative. When patients died from
overdose, they condemned the
drug.

Time has proven that Wither-
ing’s findings were correct. Mod-
ern medicine has found many
uses for digitalis in the treatment
of heart diseases.

COFFEEBREAKE, a women’s community bible study, meets Wednesdays from 9:30
to 11 a.m. We offer free child care, a story hour program for three- to five-year-olds, an
opportunity to meet new friends, small group discussions over a cup of coffee. There's a
place for you with us — join us! At the Terrace Christian Reformed Church on the cor-

ner of Sparks and Straume.

62 Terrace Review — Marck 6, 1992