Part 86

Sweet spirit of nitre, See Spirit of Nitrous Ether

Sydenham, on iron, 399; portrait, 400; laudanum, ii, 143

Sylvius’s Carminative Spirit, 337 salt, 336

Sympathetic egg, 190 ointment, 188, 189, 190; ii, 6 powder, 191 remedies, 187

Symbols, alchemical, ii, 304, ii, 308, ii, 309

Synthetic Remedies, ii, 256

Syphilis, book on, 224; Valentine’s reference, 229; treatment, 243; mercury as cure, 409; origin, 413; early treatment, 413; guaiacum as cure, 414, ii, 112

Syrup, derivation, 103; ii, 299

Takkum gum, 53

Talbor’s Tincture of Bark, 319

Talbor R., employs cinchona, 319; ii, 97 process, ii, 99

Talismans worn by Arabs, 163; universality, 171. See also Charms

Talmud, medicine in, 49

Tamarinds, introduction, 105, 218

Tansy, origin, 22

Tapeworm remedy, Nouffer’s, 320; Kousso, ii, 115

Tar water, invention, 316; opinions, 318

Tartar etymology, 370 preparations, 371, 372

Tartaric acid, discovery, 268

Tartarised iron, 402

Tartarum tartarisatus, 373

Tartarus, mythical hell, 370

Tartre Stibié, 384

Tartre Stygié, 384

“Tasteless Ague Drops,” ii, 133

Temperature, doctrine of, 180

Terra Germanica, ii, 54 Livonica, ii, 55 Mellitea, ii, 54 Portugallica, ii, 54 Samia, ii, 54 Sicula, ii, 54 Sigillata, Galen on, 213; ii, 53; how prepared, ii, 54; uses, ii, 54 Strigensis, ii, 54

Terres damnées, ii, 283