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Valenciennes, naturalist, 282

Valency, theory, ii, 260

Valentine, Basil, 181, 224; portrait, 225; identity, 228; works, 228

Valangin's solution, ii, 135

Van Helmont on weapon salve, 191; biography, 257; portrait, 258; contracts itch, 258; discovers carbonic acid, 259; physiology, 260; employs alum, 331

Van Swieten's solution, 421; anæsthetic story, ii, 254

Vauquelin, biography, 271; portrait, 272; discovers narcotine, ii, 244; discovers daphnine and nicotine, ii, 245

Vegetable ethiops, 351 vitriol, 375

"Vegeto-Mineral Water," Goulard's 265

Venice treacle. See Theriaca

Venom antidotes, Arabian, 112; ii, 239

Venus uses dittany, 26

Veratrine, discovery, ii, 248

Vervain, 35; used by Saxons, 126

Verdigris ointment, 16; ii, 52

Vigo, John de, biography, 410; plaster, 411

Vinegar Biblical references, 64, 65, 71

Vinum Millepedarum, ii, 11

Vipers, medicinal uses, 90; ii, 19; Charas on, 280; ii, 20; de Sévigné on, ii, 21; Quincy on, ii, 22; preparations, ii, 22

Vis Coriaria, ii, 246

Vitriol, early use, 372; kinds, 373; etymology, 373; medical uses, 373, 398; preparations, 374; symbols, ii, 309. See also Oil of Vitriol and Spirit of Vitriol

Vitriol of Mars, 373 Venus, 373; ii, 311

Vitriolated tartar, 371

Vitriolum Camphoratum, 374

Vocabulary, pharmaceutical, ii, 278

"Volatile gold," 396

Vulnerarii, 92

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Walnuts as remedy, 185

Want's Tincture of Colchicum, ii, 186

R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD., BREAD ST. Warburg, Dr. Carl, biography, ii, 206; poverty, ii, 207

Warburg's Tincture, history, ii, 206; formula, ii, 207

Ward, Joshua, biography, ii, 208; portrait, ii, 209; recipes, ii, 211, 213

Ward's paste, ii, 67

Warts, remedies, 169 transferring, 170, 172. See also Wort-cunning

Watercress, medical use, 125

Weapon salve, See Sympathetic Ointment

Weights, ancient, 44, 59 signs for, ii, 300

Wellcome Research Laboratory (Khartoum), 162

Wells, H., uses nitrous oxide gas, ii, 249; portrait, ii, 250

Whisky, early use, 329

White lead ointment, 288, 406

White vitriol, 373, 426

Whitworth doctors, ii, 215; cures, ii, 216

Whooping-cough, transferring, 170

Wiener, Frank, ii, 121

Willis, Dr., portrait, 401

Willis's Preparation of Steel, 400, 401

Witches' powers, 171

Withering, Dr. W., biography, ii, 110; on digitalis, ii, 110

Wohler's discovery, ii, 257; portrait, ii, 258

"Wolf of Metals," 379

Wondreton, poisoner, ii, 227

Woodcock's Wind Pills, ii, 167

Wool-fat used by Dioscorides, 210

Words, origin of, 33

Worms, early remedy, 42, 43, 245

Wormwood, Biblical reference, 64

Wort-cunning, Saxon, 124

Wound Balsam, ii, 135

Writing, invention, 4

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Zebethum Occidentale, ii, 9

Zinc, early references, 426; alloys, 426; composition, 427; preparations, 427; symbol, ii, 309 oxide, synonyms, 427 sulphate. See White Vitriol

Zoroaster, inventor of medicine, 6, 157

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