Chronicles of Pharmacy, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A. C. Wootton

Jacobi’s powder, [350]
Jamblicus, writings of, [5]
James Dr., portrait, ii, [187]
James’s analeptic pills, ii, [165]; ii, [189]
James’s powder, first official, ii, [67];
patent, ii, [164];
origin, ii, [187]; ii, [191];
patent, ii, [188];
imitations, ii, [190]
Jaso, daughter of Æsculapius, [11]
Jesuits’ bark, ii, [97].
See also Cinchona drops, ii, [135]
Jews, belief in charms, [160];
medicines of, [48];
object to bitter flavours, [48], [64]
John of Gaddesden, [134];
small-pox cure, [169], [186]
John xxi, medical author, [294]
Johnson, Dr., touched for scrofula, [301]
Johnson’s Golden Ointment, ii, [199]
Jonah’s gourd, [66]
Julep, etymology, [103]; ii, [291]
Juniper, Biblical reference, [65]
Jussieu, French botanist, [284]

Kadolikoi, [95]
Kakhal, [327]
Katapotia, [86]; ii, [283], ii, [291]
Kekulé’s structural formulas, ii, [261];
portrait, ii, [262]
Kermes, etymology, ii, [50];
what it is, ii, [50];
uses, ii, [51]
Mineral, invention, [381];
medicinal uses, [381]
Kesebt, identity of, [42]
Ketorah, meaning of, [55]
Kik, Gerard’s reference, [67]
Kiki, ii, [90]
King’s Evil, cured by touch, [298];
Shakespearian reference, ii, [72].
See also [Scrofula]
Kohol, [378]
Kopopoloi, [95]
Koran as Arab literature, [98]
Kousso, introduction, ii, [115];
tapeworm, remedy, ii, [115]
Krabadin, earliest pharmacopœia, [103]
Kunckel’s, portrait, [362];
Bologna stone, [363];
luminous pills, [365]
Kurella, Dr., note on, ii, [148]
Kyanol, ii, [263]
Kyphi, sacred perfume, [45]

La Mère Thecle’s ointment, [407]
La Mothe’s Golden Drops, [321], [404]
La Voisin, poisoner, ii, [236]
Lac Virginis, ii, [136]; ii, [292]
Ladanum, Biblical reference, [64]
Lana philosophica, [427]
Lancaster Black Drop, ii, [145]
Lang, Andrew on mythology, [33]
Lapis Bezoar Occidentale, ii, [15];
Infernalis, [424]; ii, [292];
Medicamentosus, ii, [292];
Mirabilis, ii, [292]
Laser. See [Silphion]
Laudanum, Paracelsus’s, [243];
Shakespearian reference, ii, [75];
invention, ii, [142];
recipes, ii, [142];
etymology, ii, [143];
various kinds, ii, [144]
Laugier, French chemist, [282]
Laune, Gideon de, [144];
biography, [146];
pills, [147]
Lavoisier, French chemist, [281]
Lavoisier defines salts, [326]
Le Febre’s “great cordial,” [312];
Baume de Vie, ii, [176]
Lead, medical use, [406];
preparations, [406];
Goulard uses, [407];
symbol, ii, [307], ii, [310]
Lead plaster. See [Diachylon]
Lead solution, discovery, [265]
Lebonah, meaning of, [55]
Ledger, C., obtains cinchona seeds, ii, [105];
annuity, ii, [107];
portrait, ii, [107]
Leechdoms, Saxon, [124]
Leeches, Biblical mention, [70];
first use of, ii, [139]
Lemery, French pharmacist, [280];
works, [281];
Crocus Martis, [350];
tincture of gold, [395]
Lemnian earth, ii, [53];
source, ii, [53];
uses, ii, [54]
Lenitive electuary, origin, ii, [146]
Lepidus marinus, poison, ii, [226], ii, [227]
Leucomaines, discovery, ii, [242]
Levingstern, Epsom apothecary, [341]
Libanos, meaning, [55]
Liebig, portrait, [283];
mistake of, [339]
Lign aloes, Biblical reference, [63]
Lilium, Paracelsus’s, [244]
Limbeck, [328];
etymology, ii, [279]
Lime water, efficacy, [356]
Linamentum, ii, [290]
Linimentum camphoræ compositæ, origin, ii, [210], ii, [214]
Lion, medical, use, ii, [12]
Liquor Bismuthi, introduction, [387]
Cranii Humani, ii, [5]
Lisbon Diet Drink, ii, [155]
Lisle’s Powder for Fevers, ii, [191]
Litharge, [406]
Lithargyrum Argenti, [406]
Auri, [406]
Lithium discovery, [353];
uses, [353]
Liver complaint, ancient diagnosis, [39];
old remedy, [288]
Lixivium, [324]
Saponarium, [325]
Tartari, [372]
Lizards’ blood, [39]
Locatelli’s balsam, [32]; ii, [159]
Locusta, poisoner, ii, [224]
Lohn’s writing board, [163]
London Pharmacopœia, the first, [103], [133];
compiler, [146], [218], [256];
criticised, [290], [418];
formulæ, ii, [38], ii, [39], ii, [40], ii, [41];
how prepared, ii, [60];
contents, ii, [61];
title-page, ii, [63];
translation, ii, [67];
formulæ, ii, [146]
Long, Dr., ether anæsthetist, ii, [249]
Long, St. John, biography, ii, [192];
portrait, ii, [193];
income, ii, [194];
death, ii, [195]
Long’s Liniment, ii, [192], ii, [196]
Looch, origin of word, ii, [292]
Lozenges, ii, [299]
Luban, meaning of, [56]
Luce, Lille, pharmacist, [339]
Lully, Raymond, biography, [221];
portrait, [222];
on aqua vitæ, [329]
Luminous pills, [365]
Lunar caustic, ii, [311]
Luna fixata, [428]
Lupus Metallorum, [379]
Lydgate, note on, ii, [286]

Maceration, ii, [292]
Machaon, son of Æsculapius, [11]
Macquer, French chemist, [277];
arsenical salt, [277]
Madder, used by Saxons, [126]
Magdaleo, meaning of, ii, [292]
Magic and medicine, [2], [157]
Magistery of Bismuth, ii, [293]
of Human skull, ii, [6]
meaning of, ii, [293]
of Saturn, [407]
Magma, ii, [293]
Magnes Arsenicalis, ii, [293]
Magnesia, medical use, [354];
preparation, [354];
etymology, [354];
confused with manganese, [355];
in mineral springs, [355];
Black, on, [356]
of Gold, [355]
Magnesian stone, [354]
Magnesium, preparation, [357]
Magnets as cures, [199]
Magnus, Albertus, describes caustic potash, [325]
Magog identified with Prometheus, [12]
Maimonides, Jewish scholar, [111];
remedies for poison, ii, [34]
Malagmata, [91]; ii, [294]
Malascation, meaning of, ii, [294]
Male fern, tapeworm remedy, [320], [321]
Mallows, Biblical plant, [65]
Man, parts of, used in medicine, ii, [4]
Mandrake, legends, [19];
as sterility remedy, [20], [48];
ancient uses of, [21]
Mandragora, legends of, [19];
Shakespearian reference, ii, [75];
on battle-field, ii, [225]
Manhu, derivation of manna, [60]
Manica Hypocratis, ii, [294]
Manipulus, ii, [294]
Manna, Biblical, [60];
sources, [61];
Avicenna, uses, [109]
Manna metallorum, [419]
Manus Christi, meaning of, ii, [294]
Manus Dei, meaning of, ii, [294]
Marcquis’s “Aloe Morbifuga,” ii, [89]
Markham, Sir C., introduces cinchona into India, ii, [102];
on derivation of cinchona, ii, [103];
“Peruvian Bark,” ii, [105]
Marmalades, origin of, ii, [294]
Marsh’s arsenic test, ii, [241]
Martial Regulus of Antimony, [379]
Masticatories, meaning of, ii, [294]
Matrass, ii, [294]
Matthews’s Pills, origin of, ii, [154]
Mauve, discovery, ii, [263]
May dew for the complexion, [173]
Mayerne, Sir Theodore de, [144];
portrait, [145];
biography, [146], [255];
impeached, [384];
introduces calomel, [418];
anti-epileptic powder, ii, [6];
writes preface to P. L., ii, [61];
burlesqued, ii, [71]
Maythe, use in medicine, [125]
Measures, signs for, ii, [300]
Meat, putrid, in medicine, [39]
Meconic acid, discovery, ii, [245]
Medea, medical discoveries, [17];
inventor of poisons, ii, [221]
Medea oil, [359]
Medical aphorisms in Talmud, [50]
treatises in verse, [137]
Medicamentarii, [92]
Medicamentum ad annum, [310]; ii, [177]
Medicina, [95]
Medicine, origin of, [2];
associated with magic, [2];
traditional founder, [2];
god of, [6];
as a science, [88];
separation from pharmacy, [91];
and magic, [157]
Medicines, charges for, [149], [150]
from metals, [376]
Megillat-Sammanin, treatise on pharmacology, [49]
Megrims diagnosis, [128];
early remedy, [129]
Mel Egyptiacum, ii, [52]
Helleboratum, Culpepper, on, [251]
Melampus, medicinal discoveries, [12], [13];
uses iron as remedy, [397]
Mellites, ii, [294]
Menecrates, [91];
originator of diachylon, ii, [127]; ii, [129]
Mensis Philosophicus, ii, [294]
Menstruum, meaning of, ii, [294]
Mentha, legend of, [26]
Mercury, ancient god, [4];
medical use, [243];
origin of name, [408];
used by Arabs, [409];
medical uses, [409];
as syphilis cure, [409], [410];
“killing,” [421];
symbol for, ii, [305], ii, [306], ii, [310].
See also [Corrosive Sublimate], [Red Precipitate], [Calomel], and [Quicksilver]
Mercurial ointment, [132], [410], [421]
pills, early formulæ, [411], [412], [421]
Mesué, the elder, [101], [105], [217], [218]
Mesué, the younger, [110], [217], [218]
Mesué’s unguentum tripharmacum, [406]
Mesmer, note on, [201];
animal magnetism, ii, [167]
Messiah, meaning of, [60]
Metalepsy, ii, [259]
Metallic Tractors, [201]; ii, [166]
Metals in Ebers’s papyrus, [40];
as remedies, [186];
symbols, ii, [304]
Metasyncretics, ii, [282]
Methel nut, ii, [119]
Midas, punishment of, [7]
Midwifery, anæsthetics in, ii, [251]
Migmatopoloi, [95]
Mindererus’s spirit, invention, [338];
first official, ii, [67]
Mindererus, old physician, [338];
biography, ii, [88];
“Aloedarium,” ii, [88]
Mineral bezoar, [380]
“Mineral Solution,” ii, [135]
Mint, origin of, [26]
Mirfield’s “Breviarium Bartholomei,” [135]
Mistura Ferri Composita, [403]
Mithridates the Great, biography, [289];
medical discoveries, [289];
death, [290]
Mithridatum, [91];
inventor, [289];
absurdities, [290];
Galen on, [292];
number of ingredients, [293];
formulæ, ii, [20], [38], [39]
Mohammed, influence of, [97];
death, [104]
Monoceros, mythical animal, [28]
Monopolies abolished, ii, [161]
Moore’s “History of the Study of Medicine,” [135]
Morbus Gallicus, [413].
See also [Syphilis]
Morella furiosum lethale, [25]
Morgan, Hugo, Queen Elizabeth’s apothecary, [298];
makes theriaca, ii, [44]
Morpheus, how represented, [17]
Morphine, discovery, ii, [244]
Morphium, etymology, [18]
Morton, W. T. G., uses ether in dentistry, ii, [250]
Mosaic gold, [396], [424]
Moses identified with Hermes, [4]
Moss from skull, as remedy, [191]
Mother’s ointment, [407]
Moult, London chemist, [345]
Moxa, meaning of, ii, [295]
Mullein, used by Saxons, [126]
Mummies, medical use, ii, [23];
opinions on, ii, [24]
Murray’s aërated cod-liver oil, ii, [167]
Mustard for scorpion bites, [18]
seeds, Biblical reference, [71]
Mynsicht’s publications, [375];
elixir of vitriol, [375];
invents emetic tartar, [382];
powder of Saturn, [407]
Myrepsus, Nicolas, [219];
ointment, [427]
Myrepsus, [95]; ii, [296]
Myrophecia, [95]
Myropolia, [95]
Myrrh, origin, [23];
Biblical references, [63]
Myrrha, legend of, [22]
Mythology, science of, [33]

Naphtha, legend, [359]
Narceine, discovery, ii, [248]
Narcotine, discovery, ii, [244]
Nardos pitike, meaning, [73]
Nardostachys, [74]
Narwhal horn, [28]
Nasalia, ii, [290]
Nataph, meaning of, [56]
Necklaces, medical uses, [214]
Nectarion, identity of, [24]
“Negro Cæsar’s Cure for Poison,” ii, [237]
Nepenthe, etymology, [23];
identity, [24]
Nettleton, Dr. T., originates citrine ointment, ii, [126]
Newbery, maker of James’s Powder, ii, [188]
Newton, Sir Isaac, connection with pharmacy, [279]
Nicandor’s treatise on poisons, ii, [226]
Nicotine, discovery, ii, [245];
synthetic, ii, [266]
Nihil album, [427]
Nitre, Biblical reference, [70];
medical use, [108];
manufacture in France, [352], [353], [359];
early references, [358];
symbol, ii, [309]
Nitric acid, first use in medicine, [105]
Nitrous oxide gas, discovery, ii, [249]
Nitrum fixum, [371]
Noctiluca, ii, [296]
Nostrums, ancient, [215]
Nouffer’s Tapeworm Cure, secret purchased, [319];
origin, [320]
Nuremberg ordinance, [120];
old pharmacy, [120]
Nychthemeron, ii, [296]