Part 71

Megrims diagnosis, 128; early remedy, 129

Mel Egyptiacum, ii, 52 Helleboratum, Culpepper, on, 251

Melampus, medicinal discoveries, 12, 13; uses iron as remedy, 397

Mellites, ii, 294

Menecrates, 91; originator of diachylon, ii, 127; ii, 129

Mensis Philosophicus, ii, 294

Menstruum, meaning of, ii, 294

Mentha, legend of, 26

Mercury, ancient god, 4; medical use, 243; origin of name, 408; used by Arabs, 409; medical uses, 409; as syphilis cure, 409, 410; “killing,” 421; symbol for, ii, 305, ii, 306, ii, 310. See also Corrosive Sublimate, Red Precipitate, Calomel, and Quicksilver

Mercurial ointment, 132, 410, 421 pills, early formulæ, 411, 412, 421

Mesué, the elder, 101, 105, 217, 218

Mesué, the younger, 110, 217, 218

Mesué’s unguentum tripharmacum, 406

Mesmer, note on, 201; animal magnetism, ii, 167

Messiah, meaning of, 60

Metalepsy, ii, 259

Metallic Tractors, 201; ii, 166

Metals in Ebers’s papyrus, 40; as remedies, 186; symbols, ii, 304

Metasyncretics, ii, 282

Methel nut, ii, 119

Midas, punishment of, 7

Midwifery, anæsthetics in, ii, 251

Migmatopoloi, 95

Mindererus’s spirit, invention, 338; first official, ii, 67

Mindererus, old physician, 338; biography, ii, 88; “Aloedarium,” ii, 88

Mineral bezoar, 380

“Mineral Solution,” ii, 135

Mint, origin of, 26