Part 78

Planets, as aids to prescribing, 187

Plantain, Shakespearian reference, ii, 74

Plasters, Aetius on, 215

Pleurisy, old remedy, 81

Pliny, death, 90

Plough, inventor, 288

Plummer, Dr. A., note on, ii, 153 Æthiops Medicinalis, 382 pills, 351; origin, ii, 153 powder, 382

Pocula Emetica, 385

Podalirus, son of Æsculapius, 11

Poisoners, famous, ii, 230

Poison, antidotes, ii, 34, ii, 49, ii, 221, ii, 237, ii, 289 origin of word, ii, 297 register introduced, 123

Poisoning, delayed, ii, 223 detecting. See Toxicology punishment, ii, 230

Poisons, in Bible, ii, 222; history of, ii, 220; used in Rome, ii, 223; in ancient times, ii, 225; in Middle Ages, ii, 227

Polychrest, 369, 371; ii, 198, ii, 297

Polyidus, magician, 13

Pomatum, ii, 298

Pomegranates, Biblical reference, 72

Pompholyx, 209, 407, 427

Poppy, in Saxon times, 126; as remedy, 184; Shakespearian reference, ii, 75

Poppies, syrup, origin, ii, 116

Populeum, ii, 298

Porta, medical author, 183

Portland powder, 215, 309; ii, 125

Posca, 71

Potassium nitrate. See Nitre sulphate, synonyms, 371

Potato, popularising, 273

Potio Laxativa Viennensis, ii, 121

Potion Noire Anglaise, ii, 122