Part 88

Troches, etymology, ii, 299

Trochiscus trigonus, 87

Tsora, meaning, 53

Turbith mineral, Paracelsus uses, 243; why so called, 417

Turlington’s Drops, ii, 135

Turner’s Cerate, origin, ii, 157; formula, ii, 158

Turner, Dr., note on, ii, 157; publications, ii, 158

Turpentine as remedy, 50

Tutty, ii, 159

Typhon’s eye, 35

Uisage-beatha, old Irish drink, 329

Unguentum Ægyptiacum, ii, 52 Arcœi, ii, 133 Desiccativum Rubrum, ii, 160 Diapomphologos, 407, 427; ii, 160 Nutritum, 407; ii, 160; ii, 296 Refrigerans, ii, 65; ii, 127 Rosatum, ii, 160 Saturninum, 407 Sympatheticum, 188, 189, 190 Tetrapharmacum, ii, 282 Tripharmacum, 406

Ungius odorata, 57

Unicorn, Biblical references, 29; in Royal Arms, 30; Shakespearian references, 30; Scottish pound, 30; Apothecary’s sign, 31

Unicorn’s horn, 29, 30

“Universal medicine,” Geber’s claim, 106

“Universal panacea,” 414

“Universal remedy,” 132, 374

“Universal solvent,” Glauber’s, 264

Urus, identity, 29

Usquebagh, ii, 65

Valenciennes, naturalist, 282

Valency, theory, ii, 260

Valentine, Basil, 181, 224; portrait, 225; identity, 228; works, 228

Valangin’s solution, ii, 135

Van Helmont on weapon salve, 191; biography, 257; portrait, 258; contracts itch, 258; discovers carbonic acid, 259; physiology, 260; employs alum, 331

Van Swieten’s solution, 421; anæsthetic story, ii, 254

Vauquelin, biography, 271; portrait, 272; discovers narcotine, ii, 244; discovers daphnine and nicotine, ii, 245