Part 54

Cough, old remedies, 90, 128

“Council of Ten” as poisoners, ii, 228

Coursus de Gangeland, 142

Courtois discovers iodine, 351

Cow-dung as a medicine, ii, 8

Crabs’-claws’ powder, ii, 19

Crabs’ eyes, 356

Cramp rings, 172, 294; antiquity of, 305; origin, 306; consecration, 306

Cream of tartar, investigated, 268, 371

Cress, use in medicine, 125

Crocomagma, ii, 285

Crocus Martis, 350, 398, ii, 284, ii, 285 meaning of, ii, 285 metallorum, ii, 285 veneris, ii, 285

Crollius, medical writer, 183, 185

Crucible, meaning, ii, 285

Cubebs, history, ii, 108; medicinal uses, ii, 108; ingredient in Mithridate, ii, 108; re-introduced, ii, 108

Cucupha, ii, 285

Cucurbit, ii, 285

Culpepper, Nicholas, 251; criticises P.L., 251; portrait, 252; house, 253; career, 253

Cusinier’s syrup, ii, 155

Cyathus, meaning, ii, 285

Daffy, Rev. T., invents elixir, ii, 172

Damien, patron saint of pharmacy, 19

Damocrates, 91; Mithridatum, ii, 38; ii, 39

Dante, connection with pharmacy, 279

Daphnine, discovery of, ii, 245

Darsini, 219

David, King, electuary, 220

Davy, Sir Humphry, portrait, 284