Part 49

Blood root as remedy, 184

Blue vitriol, 373

Bodega, derivation, 95

Boils, Biblical remedy, 46, 73; cure for, 170

Bole armeniæ, medical uses, 216

Bologna sun-stone, 361

Bolus, meaning of, ii, 282

Bombast See Paracelsus

Borax, early use, 108

Borith, 324

Botanologoi, 95

Boulduc, French apothecary, 281

Boules de Mars, 402 de Nancy, 402

Boutique, derivation, 95

Bovins’s remedy, 374

Boyle investigates phosphorus, 365

Boyle’s “Hell,” 417

Boyveau-Laffecteur’s rob, 415

Brandt discovers phosphorus, 363

Brass, 426

Brass-alum, 427

“Breviarium Bartholomei,” 135

Brinvilliers, poisoner, ii, 232

British oils, 359; ii, 164

British Pharmacopœia, animal substances in, ii, 4; editions, ii, 69

Brockenden’s compressed drugs, ii, 167

Bromine, discoverer, 273; isolation, 339

Brongniart, French pharmacist, 276