Part 75

Oxycroceum, ii, 297

Oxygen, discovery, 269; why so called, 324

Oxymels, ii, 31

Pachius’s Hiera, ii, 140

Palma Christi, 68; ii, 89, ii, 92

Palsy Drops, ii, 146

Panacea, daughter of Æsculapius, 11 Holsatica, 371 Mercurialis, 419

Panchrest, ii, 297

Panchymagogon, 419; ii, 297

Pandects of Physic, 104

Pantopoloi, 95

Papyri, medical and pharmaceutical, 36

Papyrus Ebers, 36; described, 37; photograph, 40; prescriptions in, 41, 42; date, 48

Paracelsus, theory of elements, 174; “sympathetic ointment,” 188, 190; biography, 230; education, 232; boastfulness, 233; epitaph, 236; character, 237; Browning’s poem on, 239; Butler on, 240; mysticism, 240; chemical observations, 241; drugs used by, 243; portraits, 247, 248, 249, 250; “Archidoxa Medicinæ,” 390; “Catholicon,” 414; “Zebethum Occidentale,” ii, 9

Paré’s experiment, ii, 229

Paregoric Elixir, origin, ii, 151; formula for, ii, 151; etymology, ii, 151

Paris, apothecary edicts, 122

Paris School of Pharmacy, 270, 285

Parmentier, biography, 272

Pastilli, ii, 299

Patent Medicines, origin of, ii, 161

Patents, why granted, ii, 161

Pearls, use of, in medicine, ii, 33

Pectoral Powder, ii, 148

Pedilavium, ii, 297

Pelican, ii, 297

Pelletier, discovers quinine, 274; ii, 247; portrait, 275; discovers other alkaloids, ii, 248

Pelouze, French pharmacist, 283