Goose grease as remedy, ii, 12
Gout, remedies for, 129, 136, 167, 172, 215, 216, 217, 353; ii, 183
powder, Mayerne's, 257;
Duke of Portland's, 215, 309
Gourd, Biblical plant, 66, 69
Goulard, biography, 264;
discoveries, 265
Goulard's extract, 265
Greeks, drugs used by, 77
Green precipitate, 417
Green vitriol, 372, 427
Gregory, Dr. Jas., portrait, ii, 137;
publication, ii, 138
Gregory's Powder, origin of, ii, 137;
prescription for, ii, 138
Grew, Nehemiah, on Epsom salts, 342;
portrait, 343
Griffith's mixture, 403
Grocers' Guild, 139, 147
Grubourt, French pharmacist, 282
Guaiacum, syphilis cure, 414;
history, ii, 111;
medical uses, ii, 112;
preparation, ii, 113
Gutteta, ii, 290
Gwynne's "Aurum non aurum," 391
H
Haarlem oil, origin, ii, 176
Hair oil, papyrus formula, 42
Hall, Dr., Shakespeare's son-in-law, ii, 76
Haloid salts, 326
Ham, originator of medicine, 6
Hamech, a purgative, 203
Hammon, 6
Hammoniacus salt, 334
Hanckwitz advertisement, 141;
makes phosphorus, 365
Hartman's "Book of Chymicall Secrets," 196
Headache Essence, Ward's, ii, 214
Headache, early remedies, 41, 42, 44, 129
Heartburn tablets, 388
Hebenon, Shakespearian reference, ii, 83
Heberden, Dr. W., portrait, 291
Helbanah, 56
Helias's letter to Alfred the Great, 114, 131
"Hell-stone," 424
Hellebore as medicine, 12;
used by Paracelsus, 246
Helvetius's pills, 32
ipecacuanha secret, 319
Helvetius employs alum, 331;
French physician, ii, 114
Hemlock, Biblical reference, 64
Henbane, etymology, ii, 276;
toothache remedy, 168, 185.
See also Hyoscyamus.
Henry VIII, medical knowledge, 294;
plaster for ulcers, 295;
Halford on, 295
Henry's patent, 345
Heracleus honey as poison, ii, 226
Heraclides, 89
Herbalists earliest doctors, 1
Herbs, symbolical names, 35;
used by Saxons, 124
Hermes, Greek god, 4;
works of, 5, 162;
Egyptian, 157; ii, 305
Hermodactyls, gout remedy, 217; ii, 183
Hezekiah's boil, treatment, 46, 73
Hezob, 64
Hhawi, Rhazes's book, 106
Hiera Diacolocynthidis, ii, 141
Hiera Picra, origin, ii, 138;
antiquity, ii, 139;
first formula, ii, 139;
other recipes, ii, 140, 141
Hin, ancient measure, 59
Hippocrates, drugs mentioned by, 77;
biography, 84;
portrait 85;
as pharmacist, 91;
doctrines, 100, 101, 178;
theory of cures, 183;
theories attacked, 217
Hippocrates's sleeve, ii, 294
Hoffmann's anodyne, 348; ii, 67
Hofmann, A. W. von, researches, ii, 263;
portrait, ii, 264
"Holland oil," ii, 255
Homberg's weather figures, 364;
narcotic salt, 374
Homologues, discovery, ii, 259
Honey, medical uses, 245; ii, 30;
preparations, ii, 31
Hooper's Female Pills, ii, 163
Horehound, early use, 210
Horse leech, Biblical mention, 70
Horus, discoverer of medicine, 3
Houel, founder of Paris School of Pharmacy, 285
Hoy's salt, 345
Humours, doctrine of, 178
Hungary Powder, ii, 35
Hungary, Queen of, invents rosemary water, 296
origin of formula, 298
Huxham, J., biography, ii, 100;
portrait, ii, 101;
"Essay on Fevers," ii, 101
Huxham's tincture, ii, 67; ii, 100, 102
Hyacinth confection, ii, 34
Hydrargyrum, derivation, 408
