Part 44

Amulets for preventing disease, 162. See also Charms

Anæsthetic, mysterious, ii, 254

Anæsthetics, discovery, ii, 248

Analeptica, ii, 280

Anderson, Dr. P., portrait, ii, 168; publication, ii, 168; invents pills, ii, 169

Anderson’s Scots Pills, origin of, ii, 168; formulæ, ii, 169

Andreas, author, 182

Andromachus’s theriakon, 90; ii, 20; ii, 42

Anethon in Bible, 71

Anglicanus’s “Compendium of Medicine,” 132

Aniline, discovery of, ii, 263

Animal magnetism, 199 medicines, 89, 127; ii, 1; ii, 2 oil, ii, 25

Animals, mythical, 26

Aniseed, magical plant, 18 oil, use of, 247

Anne, Queen, cures by touch, 301

Anodyne necklaces, ii, 170

Anointing oil, 38, 50, 55; formula, 59

Anointment, ii, 280

Antidotary, meaning, ii, 280 of Nicolas Prepositus, 116 of Nicolas Myrepsus, 219

Antidote, meaning, ii, 281

Antidotos ex duobus, 215, 310

Antidotum Acharistos, 220

Antidotum Adrianum, 288 Andromachus, 292 Mithridatum, 289; absurdities of, 290; Galen on, 292 Podagrica, 310 Pythagoras, 18

Anthony, Francis, panacea of, 391; epitaph, 393

Anthropomorphon, 20

Antifebrin, discovery, ii, 273

Anti-hecticum poterii, 425

Antimony, introduction, 224, 226, 227; used by Paracelsus, 243; early use in medicine, 376; etymology, 377; alchemists, researches on, 379; compounds of, 227, 378, 380; controversy, 383; symbol, ii, 309