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Show DIFFERENT WILLOWS. MEDICAL DIFFERENT WILLOWS. VIRTUE. Dr. Woodville says, that the bark of the branchesof this tree BAY-LEAVED manifests a considerable Faves of bitterness to the taste, andis IX PENTAD also astringent ; hence it has been thought a goodsubstitute for the Peruvian bark, and upon trial is.found to stop the paroxysms of intermittents, andit is likewise recommendedin other cases as a good tonic. The bark of several of the other willows EC, CHAR. Stamens five: Leav iptic-la : e, smooth : Peticles covered with glands: Germens smooth, possess similar properties; as the HISTORY. Native of Britain, a shrub, flowering in May = June. COMMON WHITE WILLOW. SALIX ALBA. Spsc. Cuar. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, silky on both sides: Le serratures glandular: Stigma bipartite. Histor yY. Native of Britain; found in woods and moist meadows; flowers in April and May. furnishes the best down, which, mixed with one-thirdcot. ton, answer all the purposes of that article. thers for beds. It is used like fea- MEDICAL VIRTUE. Gunz (Diss. bine de Cortice § lished two dissertations to prove > over that from Peru. It has a fin the trunk ofthis tree is‘ not so subjec t 1d that ane he adds, as the other kinds. MEDICAL VII According to Dr. Closs, the bark “wthis tree lias eured many 3 cases of intermittents, aiid bad scorbutic hiRoss: aegt in the dose of a scruple and i s they As every three hou coveredtheir sick Jabouring under any kind of ‘tend with the 1. ; Jeaves of this plant, and so cure them. ordered a decoction of this bark for a bath to dip weaklyinfants in, ? and with muchsuccess, GREAT ROUND-LE SALI Leaves ovate, acuminate ipules sublunate : HISTOR grows to hit ALMOND-LEAVED WILLOW SALIX AMYGDALINA. Spec. Cnar. Stamens three: Leaves ovate, oblique, serrated, smootir: Germens pedicelled : Stipules very large. HISTORY. Nariveof Britain, in moist places, in osier grounds sometimes, but not common, being a badosier. This shrub, for it never becomes a tree, flowers in April and May. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Gleditsch says that the bark of this willow has an agreeable taste, and that he prefers it to quassia and bark, even for the cure of gangrene. yin April. The same tonic power resides in this bar 1 the other willows, and has been substituted for the cinchona Mr. White says, since the duction of the willow bark into practice, at the Bath City Infirmary and Dispensary, as a substitutefor th bark, not less than twenty pounds a year have been saved to each charity, and an equal ae ates obtained, which circumstance will renderit a very valuablearticle to all hospitals, where much ba ired on the Cortex salicis latifo. Probably the barks of most ral virtues. |