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 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