Part 70

Manna, Biblical, 60; sources, 61; Avicenna, uses, 109

Manna metallorum, 419

Manus Christi, meaning of, ii, 294

Manus Dei, meaning of, ii, 294

Marcquis’s “Aloe Morbifuga,” ii, 89

Markham, Sir C., introduces cinchona into India, ii, 102; on derivation of cinchona, ii, 103; “Peruvian Bark,” ii, 105

Marmalades, origin of, ii, 294

Marsh’s arsenic test, ii, 241

Martial Regulus of Antimony, 379

Masticatories, meaning of, ii, 294

Matrass, ii, 294

Matthews’s Pills, origin of, ii, 154

Mauve, discovery, ii, 263

May dew for the complexion, 173

Mayerne, Sir Theodore de, 144; portrait, 145; biography, 146, 255; impeached, 384; introduces calomel, 418; anti-epileptic powder, ii, 6; writes preface to P. L., ii, 61; burlesqued, ii, 71

Maythe, use in medicine, 125

Measures, signs for, ii, 300

Meat, putrid, in medicine, 39

Meconic acid, discovery, ii, 245

Medea, medical discoveries, 17; inventor of poisons, ii, 221

Medea oil, 359

Medical aphorisms in Talmud, 50 treatises in verse, 137

Medicamentarii, 92

Medicamentum ad annum, 310; ii, 177

Medicina, 95

Medicine, origin of, 2; associated with magic, 2; traditional founder, 2; god of, 6; as a science, 88; separation from pharmacy, 91; and magic, 157

Medicines, charges for, 149, 150 from metals, 376

Megillat-Sammanin, treatise on pharmacology, 49