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 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

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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