Bernard, Claude, 285
of Gordon, 135
Berthelot's "History of Alchemy," 114
Berthollet, French Chemist, 281
Besen, meaning of, ii, 281
Bestucheff's Tincture, 321;
secret purchased, 322;
formula, 404
Betton's British Oils, 359; ii, 164
Bezoar Germanosum, ii, 15
stones, first mention, 111;
use in medicine, ii, 15;
source, ii, 15;
price, ii, 16; ii, 18;
as charms, ii, 16;
fallacy of, ii, 18;
as antidote, ii, 221
Bezoardic powder, ii, 19
Bezoards, ii, 282
Bible, pharmacy in, 46
drugs mentioned in, 53
poisons in, ii, 222
Biblical references, 27, 29, 33, 46, 53; ii, 222
Biliousness remedies, 161, 167
Bindo, A., Earl of Rochester's pseudonym, ii, 204
Birthwort as remedy, 184
Bismuth, first mention, 386;
regarded as poisonous, 387;
liquor, 388;
lozenges, 388;
oxychloride, 387
Bitter flavours, Jewish objection to 48, 64
Bitter Purging Salts, 345
Bitumen of Judæa, in embalming, 359
Black, Joseph, on alkalies, 324;
portrait, 357;
on alkaline earths, 356
Black draught, origin of, ii, 121
drop, invention of, ii, 145
precipitate, 418
wash, introduction, 146, 257
Bladder wort as remedy, 184
Blanc de fard, 386
Blatta Byzantina, 57
Blaud, Dr., French physician, ii, 122
Blaud's pills, original formula, ii, 122
Bleeding, old cure for, 172
Blindness, cures, 81, 82, 298
Blisters, introduced, ii, 282
Blood root as remedy, 184
Blue vitriol, 373
Bodega, derivation, 95
Boils, Biblical remedy, 46, 73;
cure for, 170
Bole armeniæ, medical uses, 216
Bologna sun-stone, 361
Bolus, meaning of, ii, 282
Bombast See Paracelsus
Borax, early use, 108
Borith, 324
Botanologoi, 95
Boulduc, French apothecary, 281
Boules de Mars, 402
de Nancy, 402
Boutique, derivation, 95
Bovins's remedy, 374
Boyle investigates phosphorus, 365
Boyle's "Hell," 417
Boyveau-Laffecteur's rob, 415
Brandt discovers phosphorus, 363
Brass, 426
Brass-alum, 427
"Breviarium Bartholomei," 135
Brinvilliers, poisoner, ii, 232
British oils, 359; ii, 164
British Pharmacopœia, animal substances in, ii, 4;
editions, ii, 69
Brockenden's compressed drugs, ii, 167
Bromine, discoverer, 273;
isolation, 339
Brongniart, French pharmacist, 276
Broom, Biblical plant, 65
Brugnatelli's Poudre Vermifuge, 426
Bucklersbury, drug trade centre, 140
Burchell's necklaces, ii, 171
Burghley's gout preventive, 172
Bulleyn's electuarium de Gemmis, ii, 35
Burnt sponge for scrofula, 353
Burt's "Heartburn Tablets," 388
Butter of antimony, 380
Byfield's sal oleosum volatile, ii, 162
C
Caffeine, discovery, ii, 247;
synthesis, ii, 268
Caius, Dr., ii, 71
Calamus draconis fruit, 31
Calatippe, ii, 17
Calomel, introduction, 146, 257, 418;
etymology, 419
Calx Jovis, 425; ii, 283
Lunæ, ii, 283
meaning of, ii, 283
Mercurii, ii, 283
Saturnii, ii, 283
Camphor, use in medicine, 109;
synthetic, ii, 269
Canterbury bells as remedy, 184
Cantharides as gout remedy, 216
Capers, use in East, 74
Caput mortuum, ii, 283
Carbonic acid gas, discovered, 259
Cardinal's powder, ii, 97
Carduus Benedictus, Shakespearian reference, ii, 73
