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
