Part 64

Hoffmann’s anodyne, 348; ii, 67

Hofmann, A. W. von, researches, ii, 263; portrait, ii, 264

“Holland oil,” ii, 255

Homberg’s weather figures, 364; narcotic salt, 374

Homologues, discovery, ii, 259

Honey, medical uses, 245; ii, 30; preparations, ii, 31

Hooper’s Female Pills, ii, 163

Horehound, early use, 210

Horse leech, Biblical mention, 70

Horus, discoverer of medicine, 3

Houel, founder of Paris School of Pharmacy, 285

Hoy’s salt, 345

Humours, doctrine of, 178

Hungary Powder, ii, 35

Hungary, Queen of, invents rosemary water, 296; origin of formula, 298

Huxham, J., biography, ii, 100; portrait, ii, 101; “Essay on Fevers,” ii, 101

Huxham’s tincture, ii, 67; ii, 100, 102

Hyacinth confection, ii, 34

Hydrargyrum, derivation, 408

Hydrochloric acid. See Spirit of salt

Hydrocyanic acid. See Prussic acid

Hydrophobia, poem on, 224

Hygeia, daughter of Æsculapius, 11

Hyoscyamus, etymology, ii, 276. See also Henbane

Hypnotic Powder of Jacobi, 350

Hypophosphites, medical use, 367

Hyssop, Biblical reference, 64; Dioscorides on, 209

Icy Noctiluca, 365