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RefNoL&P/4/161
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Of willow-bark in ague' from Edward Stone to George Parker
Date25 April 1763
DescriptionDescribing 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
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1763.0033
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7562Parker; George (c 1697 - 1764); 2nd Earl of Macclesfield; astronomer and politicianc 1697 - 1764
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