Part 63

Headache, early remedies, 41, 42, 44, 129

Heartburn tablets, 388

Hebenon, Shakespearian reference, ii, 83

Heberden, Dr. W., portrait, 291

Helbanah, 56

Helias’s letter to Alfred the Great, 114, 131

“Hell-stone,” 424

Hellebore as medicine, 12; used by Paracelsus, 246

Helvetius’s pills, 32; ipecacuanha secret, 319

Helvetius employs alum, 331; French physician, ii, 114

Hemlock, Biblical reference, 64

Henbane, etymology, ii, 276; toothache remedy, 168, 185. See also Hyoscyamus.

Henry VIII, medical knowledge, 294; plaster for ulcers, 295; Halford on, 295

Henry’s patent, 345

Heracleus honey as poison, ii, 226

Heraclides, 89

Herbalists earliest doctors, 1

Herbs, symbolical names, 35; used by Saxons, 124

Hermes, Greek god, 4; works of, 5, 162; Egyptian, 157; ii, 305

Hermodactyls, gout remedy, 217; ii, 183

Hezekiah’s boil, treatment, 46, 73

Hezob, 64

Hhawi, Rhazes’s book, 106

Hiera Diacolocynthidis, ii, 141

Hiera Picra, origin, ii, 138; antiquity, ii, 139; first formula, ii, 139; other recipes, ii, 140, 141

Hin, ancient measure, 59

Hippocrates, drugs mentioned by, 77; biography, 84; portrait, 85; as pharmacist, 91; doctrines, 100, 101, 178; theory of cures, 183; theories attacked, 217

Hippocrates’s sleeve, ii, 294