Part 48

Bernard, Claude, 285 of Gordon, 135

Berthelot’s “History of Alchemy,” 114

Berthollet, French Chemist, 281

Besen, meaning of, ii, 281

Bestucheff’s Tincture, 321; secret purchased, 322; formula, 404

Betton’s British Oils, 359; ii, 164

Bezoar Germanosum, ii, 15 stones, first mention, 111; use in medicine, ii, 15; source, ii, 15; price, ii, 16; ii, 18; as charms, ii, 16; fallacy of, ii, 18; as antidote, ii, 221

Bezoardic powder, ii, 19

Bezoards, ii, 282

Bible, pharmacy in, 46 drugs mentioned in, 53 poisons in, ii, 222

Biblical references, 27, 29, 33, 46, 53; ii, 222

Biliousness remedies, 161, 167

Bindo, A., Earl of Rochester’s pseudonym, ii, 204

Birthwort as remedy, 184

Bismuth, first mention, 386; regarded as poisonous, 387; liquor, 388; lozenges, 388; oxychloride, 387

Bitter flavours, Jewish objection to, 48, 64

Bitter Purging Salts, 345

Bitumen of Judæa, in embalming, 359

Black, Joseph, on alkalies, 324; portrait, 357; on alkaline earths, 356

Black draught, origin of, ii, 121 drop, invention of, ii, 145 precipitate, 418 wash, introduction, 146, 257

Bladder wort as remedy, 184

Blanc de fard, 386

Blatta Byzantina, 57

Blaud, Dr., French physician, ii, 122

Blaud’s pills, original formula, ii, 122

Bleeding, old cure for, 172

Blindness, cures, 81, 82, 298

Blisters, introduced, ii, 282