Part 45

Antimony cups, 385 sulphide, 326, 378, 382

Antipyrin, discovery, ii, 274

Antiseptic vinegar, ii, 56

Apollo, god of medicine, 6; portrait, 7; banished from Olympia, 8; Apollo and Daphne myth, 9, 33

Apotheca, meaning, 117

Apothecary, Biblical mention, 50

Apothecary’s duty defined, 155

Apothecary, picture of, ii, 81 in “Romeo and Juliet,” ii, 77 versions, ii, 78; ii, 79; ii, 80

Apothecaries’ Jewish Guild, 51 become physicians, 152 charges, 149, 150 curriculum, 122 during the Plague, 149 early references, 142 oath, 122 Shakespearian references, ii, 70; ii, 71; ii, 77 Society, arms, 9, 31; motto, 10; incorporation, 144, 256; drug-inspection, ii, 17; weights as metaphor, ii, 71. See also Chemists and Pharmacists

Apothek, derivation, 95

Apoplexy, remedy, 133

Apozem of Epsom Salts, 345

Apozems, meaning, ii, 281; ii, 299

Aqua aluminosa, 346 ardens, 223, 328 arthritica, ii, 8 kali Puri, 325 Luccana, 339 Lulliana, 348 mirabilis, ii, 281 Omnium Florum, ii, 8 Phagadænica, 414

Aqua Sancti Luciæ, 339 Temperata, 348 Tufania, ii, 235 Vitæ, early use, 223, 329; Rhazes on, 107; Shakespearian reference, ii, 75; symbol, ii, 309; Hibernorum, ii, 65. See also alcohol vini, 329

Aquetta di Napoli, ii, 235

Aquila Alba, 419; ii, 281

Arab pharmacy, 97

Arabic names in pharmacy, 103

Arcanum Corallinum, 249 duplicatum, 355, 371; ii, 281 meaning of, 249; ii, 281 Tartari, ii, 281 Vitrioli, 398

Arcœus invents elemi ointment, ii, 133

Areometer, invention, 281

Arfwedson discovers lithium, 353

Argentum vivum, 408

Argile, 333

Archidoxa Medicinæ of Paracelsus, 390

Archigenes’s Hiera, ii, 139

Aristes, medical discoveries, 16