Experiments and observations on the cortex salicis latifoliae, or broad-leafed willow bark; illustrated by a coloured plate. Interspersed with general observations and remarks on the different species of the cinchona, &c. General history and progressive introduction of the salix latifolia; with a variety of experiments, tending to elucidate its properties. Illustrated by cases demonstrating its superior efficacy above the cinchonae in various diseases, more particularly that branch of the healing art termed medical surgery / by G. Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, George

Date:: 1803

Credit: Experiments and observations on the cortex salicis latifoliae, or broad-leafed willow bark; illustrated by a coloured plate. Interspersed with general observations and remarks on the different species of the cinchona, &c. General history and progressive introduction of the salix latifolia; with a variety of experiments, tending to elucidate its properties. Illustrated by cases demonstrating its superior efficacy above the cinchonae in various diseases, more particularly that branch of the healing art termed medical surgery / by G. Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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r ”3 ] dicating the ufe of the cinchona, Impreffed me the more flrongly in its favour; becaufe while it feemed requifite that the cinchona fhould be adminiltered largely and repeatedly in fubltance, to prevent the return of the paroxyfms, and that it was fome- times rejected by the ftomach, and often by the in- teltines, exclufive of its proving difagreeable to that vifcus, even, when retained, not to mention its inefficacy after long perfeverance in its ufe ; the decodion alone of the falix bark, after all, proved efficacious. If we refleCt ferioufly on the frequent failure of the cinchona, large and repeated quantities of which are deemed neceffary to overcome agues, and inter- mittents, and the general difguft arifmg in the minds of patients, we ffiall not wonder at the intro- duction of the folutio mineralis, and other precari- ous remedies, which have been had recourfe to on thefe occafions. Dr Fowler* is certainly deferving of great praife, as well as Dr Willanj-, for their cautious and Ikilful mode of exhibiting this folu- tion. Dr Winterbottom was fo truly fenfible of the imperfection and want of fuccefs of the cinchona in the climate of Sierra Leona, and the difgult his * Vide Medical Reports, &c. by T. Fowler, M. D. London Medical Journal, vol. VIII. P 2

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