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style of eulogy, but the concurring tes- 
timony of numerous invalids who might 
hang up their votive crutches in the 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &e. 
pump-room, in token of ameliorated 
health, will justify a considerable degree 
of zeal in such a cause, 
Art. LVI. 4 Treatice on Cheltenham Waters and Bilious Diseases. To which are pre 
Jjixed, Observations on Fluidity, Mineral Waters, and Watering Places. By Tuomas 
“Jameson, M.D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edin- 
burgh, now resident Physician at Cheltenbam. 
IT appears an established custom for 
a physician, on settling in any popular 
watering-place, to write a treatise on the 
spring, a chemical analysis of its water, 
general observations on bathmg, air, ex- 
ercise, and on all the diseases for which 
the spring is employed. Fortunately the 
materials for making a book of this kind 
are very abundant, and it requires no 
great exertion of talents or ingenuity to 
compose from them a treatise like the 
present. 
One piece of information however will, 
we suppose, prove agreeable to the visi- 
tors of Cheltenham, which ‘is, that Dr. 
Jameson has discovered a new spring si- 
milar in properties to the old well, and 
able to furnish more water than can pos- 
sibly be used by any probable number 
of visitors. 
Art. LVIL. Experiments and Observations on the Cortex Salicis Latifolie, or Broad 
Leaved Willow-Bark; illustrated by a coloured Plate. Interspersed with general Observa- 
tions and Remarks on the different Species of the Cinchona, Sc. ; General History and pro- 
gressive Introduction of the Salix Latifolia 3 with a Variety of Experiments, tending to 
elucidate its Properties ; illustrated by Cases, demonstrating its superior Efficacy above the 
Cinchona in various Diseases, more particularly that Branch of the healing Art termed 
medical Surgery. By G. Witxinson, Corresponding Member of the Medical Society 
of London, Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Honorary Member of the 
Tyre. | 
EVERY attempt tointroduce into our 
materia medica any valuable indigen- 
ous vegetable is ‘highly meritorious.— 
The salix alba, though already strongly 
- Fecommended, has not met with the no- 
tice which it merits. Mr. James of Hod- 
desden, andwMr. White of Bath, have 
both published treatises on its virtues, 
and the present author adds an useful 
testimony to its febrifuge properties. 
Fle gives the following direction for ga- 
_thering and preserving it. 
‘© The most proper time of gathering: the 
bark is in May, June, and until the middle of 
Jniy, as after this period it is fond to adhere 
so firmly to thetrec, as not casily to be peeled 
off, neither dees it appear sO vigorous or 
juicy as I have found from experience. — It 
strould be eut into pieces not more than five 
inches in length, and the large thick bark to 
be one or two inches 1a breadth. ‘This must 
be dene when green, and then it should be 
dried in the house, in aplace where no sun 
or fre comes. This renders it convenient 
and neat for stowage, or packing for carriage, 
Gries it more regularly, and fits it for the 
mortar, either for decoction or infusion. 
Dhat of a finer sort td be exhibited in sub- 
stance, should it wot be sufficiently dry for 
pilvesising, way ke exposed to avery gradual 
Chirurgo-Physical Society of Edinburgh, and of the Literary Society of Newcastle-upon- 
and moderate heat in an oven, which will fa- 
cilitate its reduction into a very fine pow- 
der.”’ 
Decoction is the best’ mode of exhibi- 
tion. Mr. Wilkinson’s prescription 1s 
_the following. 
*< ForMULA. 
« R. corticis salicis latifolia sicati Ziss; in 
pulverem crassum redige, et macera in aque 
fontanz libris duabus per horas sex; deinde 
coque leni igne per quartam vel tertiam par- 
ten hore, et cola pro usn. Capiat ager coch- 
learia duo vel tria larga decoctr ter vel quater 
de die: sed febre intermittente, dare opor~ 
tet unciain unam aut duas secunda wel tertid 
quaque hora absente paroxysmo. ; 
“< Of late I have in some cases of dyspepsia, 
combined with this decoétion, a small por- 
tion of the lignum quassie, hy boiling it with 
the bark. 1t may be tinctured more or less 
strongly with it, according to the intention 
of the prescriber, and I sometimes add to it a 
few drops of the fincé. Javend. comp. When 
thus tinged. it strongly resembles in taste the 
decoction of cort. peruy. This method has 
also been used by Mr. White. From various 
experiments, which will hereafter be detailed, 
I find that the decoction, above all other pre- 
parations, whether tincture, cold, or warm 
infusion, is much stronger, and more fit for 
medical purpeses. I cannet speak from ex* 
