Editing Kenelm Digby (section)

==In fiction==
Digby and his wife are the subjects of the 2014 literary novel ''Viper Wine'' by [[Hermione Eyre]].<ref>London: Jonathan Cape. 
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He is mentioned in [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s novel ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]''. In the chapter titled "The Leech", the narrator describes the antagonist, Chillingworth, as having an impressive knowledge of medicine, remarking that Chillingworth claims to have been a colleague of Digby "and other famous men" in the study of natural philosophy. Digby's "scientific attainments" are called "hardly less than supernatural".

Digby also appears in [[Umberto Eco]]'s novel ''[[The Island of the Day Before]]'' as "Mr. d'Igby". He explains the principle of his [[Powder of sympathy|sympathetic powder]] (''unguentum armarium'') to the main character.