Part 56

Distillation, antiquity of, 327

Distilled waters, 328

Distillers’ Company, 148

Dittany, uses, 26

Dover, T., biography, ii, 129; “Ancient Physician’s Legacy,” ii, 131

Dover’s powder, first official, ii, 67; ii, 115; origin, ii, 129; original formula, ii, 132

Drachm sign, origin, ii, 300

Draco Mitigatus, 419, 420

Dragon’s blood, origin, 31

Dragon tree, figure of, 32

Dragons, Biblical references, 33

Drink cures, old, 130; ii, 12

Dropaxes, ii, 282; ii, 287

Dropsy cured by touch, 299

Drug, etymology, ii, 287

Drug-inspection, 138; ii, 17

Drug-trade, development, 138

Drugs as charms, ii, 75; in Ebers’s papyrus, 40; in Bible, 53; mentioned by Hippocrates, 77

Dschondisabour, medical college at, 101, 103

Dublin Pharmacopœias, ii, 69

Dudaim, identity of, 20, 49

Duke of Portland’s powder, 215, 309; ii, 125

Dumas, French chemist, 286; theory of substitution, ii, 259

Dumeril, French physician, 276

Duncan and Flockhart’s chloroform, ii, 253

Dutch Drops, origin of, ii, 176

Dysentery, ipecacuanha as remedy, ii, 114

Ear-ache, early remedies, 45, 130