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 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