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
Q
Quack doctor's harangue, ii, 204
Quackery in ninth century, 107
Quakers' Black Drop, ii, 145
Quassia, introduction, ii, 117;
etymology, ii, 118
Quevenne's iron, 404
Quicksilver, first mention, 408;
bottles for, 408;
girdles, 420.
See also Mercury
Quinodine, discovery, ii, 247
Quinine, discovery, 274; ii, 246;
synthetic, ii, 264, ii, 265
Quinsy, Hippocrates's treatment, 86
Quintessences, prepared by Paracelsus, 246; ii, 243
R
Ra's ointment, 43
Rakach, meaning of, 52
Raleigh's Great Cordial, 310, 312
Raleigh, Sir Walter, portrait, 311;
medical knowledge, 311;
confection, 312
"Rational" formulæ, ii, 261
Read, Queen Anne's oculist, ii, 14
"Receptarium Antidotarii," 218
Recipe sign, origin, ii, 302
Red bottle, ii, 217
cloth as small-pox cure, 169, 186
precipitate, introduction, 105;
used by Paracelsus, 243, 249;
early references, 416;
preparation, 416
Reduced iron, 404
Re'em, identity of, 29
Regenerated tartar, 371
Regulus of Antimony, 379
Renandot's mercurial pills, 412
Rhazes, chemical writer, 105, 106;
ointment, 407;
pil cochiæ, ii, 152
Rheumatism, early treatment, 136
Rhizotomoi, 95
Rhubarb, first mention, 216
Ricinus, Biblical plant, 67;
origin, ii, 92;
in papyrus, 41.
See also Castor oil
Ridge's Food, patent, ii, 167
Rocha alum, 331
Roche's Embrocation, patent, ii, 166
Rochelle salt, 372;
first official, ii, 67; ii, 197
Rochester, Earl, as quack, ii, 203
Rock oil, 360.
See also Petroleum
"Romeo and Juliet," origin, ii, 77
"Rosa Anglicana," 134
Rose water, Arabic origin, 103;
early mention, 328
Rosemary, derivation, 296;
properties, 296;
Queen of Hungary uses, 297
Rosencreutz, 181
Rosetta stone, 35
Rosh, meaning, ii, 222
Rosicrucians, 181
Rouelle, French chemist, 277
Rousseau's laudanum, ii, 144
Royal College of Physicians, incorporation, 143;
dispensaries, 151, 156;
prosecute an apothecary, 154;
origin, ii, 60
Royal touch cures disease, 298;
ceremony described, 304
Rufus pill, invention, ii, 140
Runge's researches, ii, 263
Runstall's Black Drop, ii, 145
S
Sabor-Ebn-Sahel's Pharmacopœia, 103
Saffron, called blood of Throth, 35;
derivation, 72;
Biblical reference, 72
St. John's Wort, charm, 172
"Sal Admirabile," 261
Sal Alembroth, 243, 417;
etymology, ii, 279;
ammoniac, discovery, 6;
Glauber makes, 263;
early reference, 334
