RefNo | L&P/4/161 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, 'Of willow-bark in ague' from Edward Stone to George Parker |
Date | 25 April 1763 |
Description | Describing the ecperiments he has made intreating fevers with a powder made from the bark of the white willow, sometimes called the dutch willow [Salix alba]. [The active substance is now known to be salicylic acid].
Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues. In a letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of R. S. from the Rev. Mr. Edward Stone, of Chipping-Norton in Oxfordshire'
Read 2 June 1763 |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1763.0033 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7562 | Parker; George (c 1697 - 1764); 2nd Earl of Macclesfield; astronomer and politician | c 1697 - 1764 |