Part 81

Rochester, Earl, as quack, ii, 203

Rock oil, 360. See also Petroleum

“Romeo and Juliet,” origin, ii, 77

“Rosa Anglicana,” 134

Rose water, Arabic origin, 103; early mention, 328

Rosemary, derivation, 296; properties, 296; Queen of Hungary uses, 297

Rosencreutz, 181

Rosetta stone, 35

Rosh, meaning, ii, 222

Rosicrucians, 181

Rouelle, French chemist, 277

Rousseau’s laudanum, ii, 144

Royal College of Physicians, incorporation, 143; dispensaries, 151, 156; prosecute an apothecary, 154; origin, ii, 60

Royal touch cures disease, 298; ceremony described, 304

Rufus pill, invention, ii, 140

Runge’s researches, ii, 263

Runstall’s Black Drop, ii, 145

Sabor-Ebn-Sahel’s Pharmacopœia, 103

Saffron, called blood of Throth, 35; derivation, 72; Biblical reference, 72

St. John’s Wort, charm, 172

“Sal Admirabile,” 261

Sal Alembroth, 243, 417; etymology, ii, 279; ammoniac, discovery, 6; Glauber makes, 263; early reference, 334

Sal ammoniacum factitium, 336 de Duobus, 371; ii, 198; ii, 281 Enixon, 261 fixum, 335; ii, 298 Fossile, 369 Gemmæ, 369 Jovis, 425; ii, 311 Polychrestum, 369; Glaser’s, 371; ii, 198; Seignette’s, ii, 197; ii, 297 Prunella, how prepared, 368; why so-called, 369 Purgatorius, 220 sacerdotale, 220 sapientiæ, 417; ii, 279 viperum, 208 volatile oleosum, 336. See also Salt and Sel

Salamanders’ Blood, ii, 298

Salerno Medical School, 115; dissolved, 117

Salia, ii, 298

Salicylic acid, synthetic, ii, 269

Salmon, W., note on, ii, 179; ii, 180