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 ] «€afe Dr Chifholm found it to produce the mod; falutary effe&s, in many inftances where the cinchona had proved ufelefs or hurtful.* In thus noticing the failure of the cinchona in fome of the fevers of the Weft Indies, and I may add in the yellow fever of Philadelphia, where from the teftimony of Drs Chiffiolm and Rufh, f it proved hurtful, I fhall not attempt to aflign the true caufes of its failure, which I do not at prefent recoiled: has been done by thofe who have exhibit- ed it. The inference I would draw is, that fimilar cafes may occur, in which this may happen in the ufe of the falix latifolia. I fliould have remarked, that exclufive of the fingular efficacy I experienced from the falix in the variety of difeafes affuming an intermitting, or a periodical type, I have found it fuperior to the cin- chona in vvhat may be termed that fpecies of pul- monary heftic fo often the confequent attendant of long continued cattarrhs, and acute pneumonic in-r fiammations, and which may be juftly efteemed among the leading caufes of phthifis pulmonalis. The advantage the falix appears to poflefs from its fuperior tonic powers above the cinchona, which laft has fo frequently difappointed me while purfu- * EfTay on the malignant fever of Grenada, &c. by C. Chif- liolm, M. D. 1795. f An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever of Phila- delphia in the year 1 793, by Dr Rufh.

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