Part 50

Broom, Biblical plant, 65

Brugnatelli’s Poudre Vermifuge, 426

Bucklersbury, drug trade centre, 140

Burchell’s necklaces, ii, 171

Burghley’s gout preventive, 172

Bulleyn’s electuarium de Gemmis, ii, 35

Burnt sponge for scrofula, 353

Burt’s “Heartburn Tablets,” 388

Butter of antimony, 380

Byfield’s sal oleosum volatile, ii, 162

Caffeine, discovery, ii, 247; synthesis, ii, 268

Caius, Dr., ii, 71

Calamus draconis fruit, 31

Calatippe, ii, 17

Calomel, introduction, 146, 257, 418; etymology, 419

Calx Jovis, 425; ii, 283 Lunæ, ii, 283 meaning of, ii, 283 Mercurii, ii, 283 Saturnii, ii, 283

Camphor, use in medicine, 109; synthetic, ii, 269

Canterbury bells as remedy, 184

Cantharides as gout remedy, 216

Capers, use in East, 74

Caput mortuum, ii, 283

Carbonic acid gas, discovered, 259

Cardinal’s powder, ii, 97

Carduus Benedictus, Shakespearian reference, ii, 73

Carminative, etymology, ii, 283 Spirit of Sylvius, 337

Cassia, introduction of, 105

Castor oil, used by Dioscorides, 210; notes on, ii, 89; picture of plant, ii, 90; early uses, ii, 90; treatise on, ii, 92; etymology, ii, 93. See also Ricinus.

Castorum, early use, 217