During a particularly nasty outbreak of ague, a fever thought to be caused by malaria, Stone noticed that willow bark tasted an awful lot like Peruvian bark, the more common ague treatment of the time.
在一次特别严重的瘟疫爆发期间,一种被认为是由疟疾引起的发烧,斯通注意到柳皮尝起来很像秘鲁皮,秘鲁皮是当时更常见的瘟疫治疗方法。