Part 67

Lancaster Black Drop, ii, 145

Lang, Andrew on mythology, 33

Lapis Bezoar Occidentale, ii, 15; Infernalis, 424; ii, 292; Medicamentosus, ii, 292; Mirabilis, ii, 292

Laser. See Silphion

Laudanum, Paracelsus’s, 243; Shakespearian reference, ii, 75; invention, ii, 142; recipes, ii, 142; etymology, ii, 143; various kinds, ii, 144

Laugier, French chemist, 282

Laune, Gideon de, 144; biography, 146; pills, 147

Lavoisier, French chemist, 281

Lavoisier defines salts, 326

Le Febre’s “great cordial,” 312; Baume de Vie, ii, 176

Lead, medical use, 406; preparations, 406; Goulard uses, 407; symbol, ii, 307, ii, 310

Lead plaster. See Diachylon

Lead solution, discovery, 265

Lebonah, meaning of, 55

Ledger, C., obtains cinchona seeds, ii, 105; annuity, ii, 107; portrait, ii, 107

Leechdoms, Saxon, 124

Leeches, Biblical mention, 70; first use of, ii, 139

Lemery, French pharmacist, 280; works, 281; Crocus Martis, 350; tincture of gold, 395

Lemnian earth, ii, 53; source, ii, 53; uses, ii, 54

Lenitive electuary, origin, ii, 146

Lepidus marinus, poison, ii, 226, ii, 227

Leucomaines, discovery, ii, 242

Levingstern, Epsom apothecary, 341

Libanos, meaning, 55

Liebig, portrait, 283; mistake of, 339

Lign aloes, Biblical reference, 63

Lilium, Paracelsus’s, 244

Limbeck, 328; etymology, ii, 279