Chronicles of Pharmacy Vol. II, by 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

Obolos, ii, 296
Oenelaion, ii, 296
Oenogala, ii, 296
Oenomeli, ii, 296
Oesypus, ii, 296
Oil of Ants, ii, 14
Bricks, how prepared, ii, 55;
medical uses, ii, 55
Eggs, prepared by Paracelsus, 247
Harts’ horns, ii, 25
Peter, 360
Puppies, ii, 11
Tartar, preparing, 132;
uses of, 247, 372; ii, 286
Vitriol, 373
Wax, ii, 31
Wine, discovery, 263
Ointments, ii, 296.
See also Unguentum
Old age, Ecclesiastes symbolism, 76
Oleum Benedictum, ii, 55
Divinum, ii, 55
Dulce Paracelsi, 348
Philosophorum, ii, 55
Sanctum, ii, 55
Vitrioli Dulce, 347; ii, 271.
See also Oil of Wine
Olibanum, source, 56
Olive oil, uses, 58
Onguent de la Mère, 407
Onions as remedy, 49, 50
Onycha in Bible, 57
Opiates, ii, 296
Opium used by Paracelsus, 243;
history, ii, 116;
medical uses, ii, 117;
active principle, ii, 243
Opobalsamum, 53
Opodeldoc, origin, ii, 148;
derivation, ii, 148;
originally a plaster, ii, 149
Oribasius, medical author, 214
Origanum Dictamnus, 26
Orthrine, ii, 258
Osiris, illustration, 3;
name for ivy, 35
Ounce sign, origin, ii, 300
Oxalic acid, synthetic, ii, 257
Oxycroceum, ii, 297
Oxygen, discovery, 269;
why so called, 324
Oxymels, ii, 31

Pachius’s Hiera, ii, 140
Palma Christi, 68; ii, 89, ii, 92
Palsy Drops, ii, 146
Panacea, daughter of Æsculapius, 11
Holsatica, 371
Mercurialis, 419
Panchrest, ii, 297
Panchymagogon, 419; ii, 297
Pandects of Physic, 104
Pantopoloi, 95
Papyri, medical and pharmaceutical, 36
Papyrus Ebers, 36;
described, 37;
photograph, 40;
prescriptions in, 41, 42;
date, 48
Paracelsus, theory of elements, 174;
“sympathetic ointment,” 188, 190;
biography, 230;
education, 232;
boastfulness, 233;
epitaph, 236;
character, 237;
Browning’s poem on, 239;
Butler on, 240;
mysticism, 240;
chemical observations, 241;
drugs used by, 243;
portraits, 247, 248, 249, 250;
“Archidoxa Medicinæ,” 390;
“Catholicon,” 414;
“Zebethum Occidentale,” ii, 9
Paré’s experiment, ii, 229
Paregoric Elixir, origin, ii, 151;
formula for, ii, 151;
etymology, ii, 151
Paris, apothecary edicts, 122
Paris School of Pharmacy, 270, 285
Parmentier, biography, 272
Pastilli, ii, 299
Patent Medicines, origin of, ii, 161
Patents, why granted, ii, 161
Pearls, use of, in medicine, ii, 33
Pectoral Powder, ii, 148
Pedilavium, ii, 297
Pelican, ii, 297
Pelletier, discovers quinine, 274; ii, 247;
portrait, 275;
discovers other alkaloids, ii, 248
Pelouze, French pharmacist, 283
Peon, identified with Apollo, 7
Peony, use by Saxons, 126;
promotes dentition, ii, 171
Pepperers’ Guild, 139
Perfume, sacred, 45
Perfumer, Biblical reference, 50
Percapt, ii, 297
Periodeutes, 93, 94
Perkins’s Metallic Tractors, 201; ii, 166
Perkin, W. H. discovers mauve, ii, 263
Peroxide of hydrogen, inventor, 282
Peruvian bark. See Cinchona
Pessary, ii, 297
Peter of Spain, medical author, 294
Petra Philosophale, ii, 174
Petroleum, medical uses, 131;
early use, 359;
synonyms, 360;
medical use, 360;
Barbadense, 360
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, foundation, 156
Pharmacies, State controlled, 103, 104
Pharmacist, the first, 12
Pharmacists, royal and noble, 287.
See also Apothecaries and Chemists
Pharmacopeus, 93
Pharmacopœia, the earliest, 103;
history of, ii, 59
Pharmacopolis, 92
Pharmacopoloi, 93
Pharmacotribæ, 95
Pharmacy Acts, various, 156
Pharmacy, myths, 1;
origin, 1;
patron saints, 19;
in Pharaoh’s time, 34;
in the Bible, 46;
old use of word, 52;
identity with sorcery, 52;
Hippocrates on, 86;
separation from medicine, 91;
Arabian, 97;
in East, 100;
in Northern Europe, 115;
edict to regulate, 117;
Beckmann on, 118;
concessions, origin, 119;
in Saxon England, 124;
animal substances in, ii, 1;
Shakespearian reference, ii, 70;
progress in 19th century, ii, 243
Pharmaka, use by Homer, 52
Pharmakeia, 52, 92
Pharmakeuein, 93
Pharmakoi, use of, 52
Pharmakon, 93
Phenacetin, discovery, ii, 273
Phillips, P. L., critic, ii, 68
Philon, 91
Philonium, inventor, 91;
formulæ, ii, 39, ii, 40, ii, 41
Philosopher’s stone, 106, 363
Philosophic egg, 379
Phlogiston theory, 176
Phœnix, as alchemists sign, 26;
legends of, 27;
Biblical references, 27;
longevity, 27
Phosphor paste, 368
Phosphorus, Hanckwitz’s advertisement, 142;
etymology, 360;
discovery, 363;
made in London, 365;
medical use, 365;
prepared from bones, 365;
dose, 367;
solubility, 368;
symbol, ii, 309
Phthisis, Rhazes’s treatment, 106
Phylacteries, protect from evil, 161
Physicians, as priests, 35;
Biblical references, 46;
Pope on, 148;
fees, 151;
Valentine on, 227
Pigmentarii, 94
Pike’s itch ointment, ii, 165
Pil cocciæ, origin, ii, 292
Pil cochiæ, origin, ii, 152, ii, 292
Pil Rufi, origin, ii, 140
Pills, gilding introduced, 109;
origin, ii, 292, ii, 297;
silvering introduced, 109, 423
Pilula saponis composita, origin, ii, 153
Pilulæ Communes, ii, 140
Ethiopicæ, ii, 153
Lunares, 423
Pacificæ, ii, 154
Perpetuæ, 381
Pestilentiales, ii, 140
Piperine, synthetic, ii, 266
Pissaeleum, 328
Pitt’s “Crafts and Frauds of Physic Exposed,” 149
Plague remedy, 224
Planets, as aids to prescribing, 187
Plantain, Shakespearian reference, ii, 74
Plasters, Aetius on, 215
Pleurisy, old remedy, 81
Pliny, death, 90
Plough, inventor, 288
Plummer, Dr. A., note on, ii, 153
Æthiops Medicinalis, 382
pills, 351;
origin, ii, 153
powder, 382
Pocula Emetica, 385
Podalirus, son of Æsculapius, 11
Poisoners, famous, ii, 230
Poison, antidotes, ii, 34, ii, 49, ii, 221, ii, 237, ii, 289
origin of word, ii, 297
register introduced, 123
Poisoning, delayed, ii, 223
detecting. See Toxicology
punishment, ii, 230
Poisons, in Bible, ii, 222;
history of, ii, 220;
used in Rome, ii, 223;
in ancient times, ii, 225;
in Middle Ages, ii, 227
Polychrest, 369, 371; ii, 198, ii, 297
Polyidus, magician, 13
Pomatum, ii, 298
Pomegranates, Biblical reference, 72
Pompholyx, 209, 407, 427
Poppy, in Saxon times, 126;
as remedy, 184;
Shakespearian reference, ii, 75
Poppies, syrup, origin, ii, 116
Populeum, ii, 298
Porta, medical author, 183
Portland powder, 215, 309; ii, 125
Posca, 71
Potassium nitrate. See Nitre sulphate, synonyms, 371
Potato, popularising, 273
Potio Laxativa Viennensis, ii, 121
Potion Noire Anglaise, ii, 122
Poudre des Chartres, secret purchased, 319, 381
Poultice, papyrus formula, 40;
etymology, ii, 298
Powder de Gutteta, ii, 6
of Projection, 379
Saturn, 407
Precious stones, medical use, ii, 32
Precipitatus per se, 416
Prepositus’s Antidotary, 116
Prescribing by chemists, limitation, 155
Prescriptions on papyri, 36, 41;
from “Don Juan,” ii, 59;
origin, ii, 304
Priestley discovers oxygen, 270
Primum Ens Sanguinis, ii, 7
Proine, ii, 258
Prometheus, the first pharmacist, 12
Propomata, ii, 298
Prosdita, ii, 299
Prussian blue, discovery, ii, 27, ii, 28
Prussic acid, discovery, 270
Psilothrum, ii, 298
Ptisans, ii, 299
Ptomaines, discovery, ii, 242
Pulvis Cornacchini, 309
Principis Mirandolæ, 310
Scammoniæ co., origin, 308
Pyroligneous acid, made by Glauber, 263
Pyroxylin, discovery, 340
Pythagoras antidote, 18