Why Is White Willow Bark Known as Natures Aspirin

Why Is White Willow Bark Known as Nature s Aspirin [Pg.172]

The Royal Society received a communication from the Reverend Edmond Stone of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire on June 2,1763JI] The opening lines are as follows [Pg.172]

Among the many useful discoveries which this age has made, there are few which better deserve the attention of the public than what I am going to lay before your Lordship. There is a bark of an English tree, which I have found by experience to be a powerful astringent and very efficacious in curing agues and intermittent disorders. [Pg.172]

Acetylsalicylic acid is an example of an ester, a class of organic compounds with the general formula RCOOR. Esters contain an ester linkage consisting of a carbonyl group to which an alkyl group (R) and an alkoxy group (OR ) are bonded (Fig. 13.4.1). Under either acidic or basic conditions or in the presence [Pg.172]

Salicylic acid (Fig. 13.4.2) is an example of a carboxylic acid with the general formula R-COOH. In this class of organic compounds the carbonyl functionality [Pg.172]

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