Edward Stone (clergyman)

Edward Stone ( born November 5, 1702 Lacey Green, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, † November 26, 1768 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire ) was a clergyman of the Church of England in Chipping Norton and the first modern researchers, the analgesic and antipyretic effect of willow bark extracts has described. This finding folk medicine, he published in 1763 in an article in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Acetylsalicylic acid, a derivative of the extracted him from willow bark substance now one of the top-selling drugs, and especially under the brand name Aspirin is known.

Stone attended from 1720 Wadham College, Oxford, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1724 and his master's degree in 1727. From 1730 he was for eleven years a Fellow of the College. 1741, he married Elizabeth Grubb and moved to Chipping Norton.

In other sources, presumably due to a failure of the lecturer of the Philosophical Transactions, a Edmund Stone (1700-1768) known as the author of the article.