Part 59

Extract of Saturn, 265; ii, 311

Eyes, remedies for, 185

Face wrinkles, papyrus prescription, 44

Fæx vini, 371

“Fakhiliteh,” Arab treatise, 112

Fat, human, medical uses, ii, 7

Ferdinand of Austria, plague powder, ii, 35; invents antidote, ii, 229

Fennel, used by Saxons, 126

Fernel, Paris physician, 415

Ferruginous waters, effect of, 403

Fever, Rhazes’s treatment, 106; charm for, 107; cinchona for, ii, 95

Fig poultice, 46, 73

Fig tree in Bible, 73

Flies in ointment, quotation, 51

Fioraventi’s Balsam, ii, 173

“Fire-air,” 269

Fire-stone, 360

Fistula paste, Ward’s, ii, 214

“Fixed air,” 357

Flake’s anti-hæmorrhoidal ointment, 425

Flores martis, 398 zinci, 427

Flos cœlorum, 375

Flückiger and Hanbury’s “Pharmacographia,” ii, 86

Fluoric acid, discovery, 268

Folk-lore, superstitious, 168

Ford’s Balsam of Horehound, ii, 167

Forget-me-not, old name, 185

Formic acid, synthetic, ii, 257