Part 79

Poudre des Chartres, secret purchased, 319, 381

Poultice, papyrus formula, 40; etymology, ii, 298

Powder de Gutteta, ii, 6 of Projection, 379 Saturn, 407

Precious stones, medical use, ii, 32

Precipitatus per se, 416

Prepositus’s Antidotary, 116

Prescribing by chemists, limitation, 155

Prescriptions on papyri, 36, 41; from “Don Juan,” ii, 59; origin, ii, 304

Priestley discovers oxygen, 270

Primum Ens Sanguinis, ii, 7

Proine, ii, 258

Prometheus, the first pharmacist, 12

Propomata, ii, 298

Prosdita, ii, 299

Prussian blue, discovery, ii, 27, ii, 28

Prussic acid, discovery, 270

Psilothrum, ii, 298

Ptisans, ii, 299

Ptomaines, discovery, ii, 242

Pulvis Cornacchini, 309 Principis Mirandolæ, 310 Scammoniæ co., origin, 308

Pyroligneous acid, made by Glauber, 263

Pyroxylin, discovery, 340

Pythagoras antidote, 18

Quack doctor’s harangue, ii, 204

Quackery in ninth century, 107

Quakers’ Black Drop, ii, 145

Quassia, introduction, ii, 117; etymology, ii, 118

Quevenne’s iron, 404