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XXXII. An Account of the Succefs of the 
Bark of the Willow in the Cure of Agues . 
In a Better to the Right Honourable George 
Earl of Macclesfield, P ref dent of R. S. 
from the Rev. Mr. Edmund Stone, of 
Chipping-Norton in Oxfordfhire. 
My Lord, 
Read June 2d, A Mong the many ufeful difcoveries, 
which this age hath made, there 
are very few which, better deferve the attention of the 
public than what I am going to lay before your 
Lordfhip, 
There is a bark of an Englifh tree, which I have 
found by experience to be a powerful aftringent, and 
very efficacious in curing aguiffi and intermitting 
diforders. 
About fix years ago, I accidentally tailed it, and was 
furprifed at its extraordinary bitternefs ) which im- 
mediately railed me a fufpicion of its having the 
properties of the Peruvian bark. As this tree delights 
in a moift or wet foil, where agues chiefly abound, 
the general maxim, that many natural maladies car- 
ry their cures along with them, or that their remedies 
lie not far from their caufes, was fo very appoflte to 
this particular cafe, that I could not help applying it j 
and that this might be the intention of Providence here, 
I muff own had fome little weight with me. 
The exceffive plenty of this bark furnilhed 
me, in my fpeculative difquifitions upon it, with an 
D d 2 argument 
