Part 80

Quicksilver, first mention, 408; bottles for, 408; girdles, 420. See also Mercury

Quinodine, discovery, ii, 247

Quinine, discovery, 274; ii, 246; synthetic, ii, 264, ii, 265

Quinsy, Hippocrates’s treatment, 86

Quintessences, prepared by Paracelsus, 246; ii, 243

Ra’s ointment, 43

Rakach, meaning of, 52

Raleigh’s Great Cordial, 310, 312

Raleigh, Sir Walter, portrait, 311; medical knowledge, 311; confection, 312

“Rational” formulæ, ii, 261

Read, Queen Anne’s oculist, ii, 14

“Receptarium Antidotarii,” 218

Recipe sign, origin, ii, 302

Red bottle, ii, 217 cloth as small-pox cure, 169, 186 precipitate, introduction, 105; used by Paracelsus, 243, 249; early references, 416; preparation, 416

Reduced iron, 404

Re’em, identity of, 29

Regenerated tartar, 371

Regulus of Antimony, 379

Renandot’s mercurial pills, 412

Rhazes, chemical writer, 105, 106; ointment, 407; pil cochiæ, ii, 152

Rheumatism, early treatment, 136

Rhizotomoi, 95

Rhubarb, first mention, 216

Ricinus, Biblical plant, 67; origin, ii, 92; in papyrus, 41. See also Castor oil

Ridge’s Food, patent, ii, 167

Rocha alum, 331

Roche’s Embrocation, patent, ii, 166

Rochelle salt, 372; first official, ii, 67; ii, 197