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Weapon salve. See Sympathetic Ointment

Weights, ancient, 44, 59 signs for, ii, 300

Wellcome Research Laboratory (Khartoum), 162

Wells, H., uses nitrous oxide gas, ii, 249; portrait, ii, 250

Whisky, early use, 329

White lead ointment, 288, 406

White vitriol, 373, 426

Whitworth doctors, ii, 215; cures, ii, 216

Whooping-cough, transferring, 170

Wiener, Frank, ii, 121

Willis, Dr., portrait, 401

Willis’s Preparation of Steel, 400, 401

Witches’ powers, 171

Withering, Dr. W., biography, ii, 110; on digitalis, ii, 110

Wohler’s discovery, ii, 257; portrait, ii, 258

“Wolf of Metals,” 379

Wondreton, poisoner, ii, 227

Woodcock’s Wind Pills, ii, 167

Wool fat used by Dioscorides, 210

Words, origin of, 33

Worms, early remedy, 42, 43, 245

Wormwood, Biblical reference, 64

Wort-cunning, Saxon, 124

Wound Balsam, ii, 135

Writing, invention, 4

Zebethum Occidentale, ii, 9

Zinc, early references, 426; alloys, 426; composition, 427; preparations, 427; symbol, ii, 309 oxide, synonyms, 427 sulphate. See White Vitriol

Zoroaster, inventor of medicine, 6, 157