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Peon, identified with Apollo, 7

Peony, use by Saxons, 126; promotes dentition, ii, 171

Pepperers’ Guild, 139

Perfume, sacred, 45

Perfumer, Biblical reference, 50

Percapt, ii, 297

Periodeutes, 93, 94

Perkins’s Metallic Tractors, 201; ii, 166

Perkin, W. H. discovers mauve, ii, 263

Peroxide of hydrogen, inventor, 282

Peruvian bark. See Cinchona

Pessary, ii, 297

Peter of Spain, medical author, 294

Petra Philosophale, ii, 174

Petroleum, medical uses, 131; early use, 359; synonyms, 360; medical use, 360; Barbadense, 360

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, foundation, 156

Pharmacies, State controlled, 103, 104

Pharmacist, the first, 12

Pharmacists, royal and noble, 287. See also Apothecaries and Chemists

Pharmacopeus, 93

Pharmacopœia, the earliest, 103; history of, ii, 59

Pharmacopolis, 92

Pharmacopoloi, 93

Pharmacotribæ, 95

Pharmacy Acts, various, 156

Pharmacy, myths, 1; origin, 1; patron saints, 19; in Pharaoh’s time, 34; in the Bible, 46; old use of word, 52; identity with sorcery, 52; Hippocrates on, 86; separation from medicine, 91; Arabian, 97; in East, 100; in Northern Europe, 115; edict to regulate, 117; Beckmann on, 118; concessions, origin, 119; in Saxon England, 124; animal substances in, ii, 1; Shakespearian reference, ii, 70; progress in 19th century, ii, 243

Pharmaka, use by Homer, 52

Pharmakeia, 52, 92