Berkeley, Bishop, portrait, 315; devises tar water, 316; publications, 316 Bernard, Claude, 285 of Gordon, 135 Berthelot’s “History of Alchemy,” 114 Berthollet, French Chemist, 281 Besen, meaning of, ii, 281 Bestucheff’s Tincture, 321; secret purchased, 322; formula, 404 Betton’s British Oils, 359; ii, 164 Bezoar Germanosum, ii, 15 stones, first mention, 111; use in medicine, ii, 15; source, ii, 15; price, ii, 16; ii, 18; as charms, ii, 16; fallacy of, ii, 18; as antidote, ii, 221 Bezoardic powder, ii, 19 Bezoards, ii, 282 Bible, pharmacy in, 46 drugs mentioned in, 53 poisons in, ii, 222 Biblical references, 27, 29, 33, 46, 53; ii, 222 Biliousness remedies, 161, 167 Bindo, A., Earl of Rochester’s pseudonym, ii, 204 Birthwort as remedy, 184 Bismuth, first mention, 386; regarded as poisonous, 387; liquor, 388; lozenges, 388; oxychloride, 387 Bitter flavours, Jewish objection to, 48, 64 Bitter Purging Salts, 345 Bitumen of Judæa, in embalming, 359 Black, Joseph, on alkalies, 324; portrait, 357; on alkaline earths, 356 Black draught, origin of, ii, 121 drop, invention of, ii, 145 precipitate, 418 wash, introduction, 146, 257 Bladder wort as remedy, 184 Blanc de fard, 386 Blatta Byzantina, 57 Blaud, Dr., French physician, ii, 122 Blaud’s pills, original formula, ii, 122 Bleeding, old cure for, 172 Blindness, cures, 81, 82, 298 Blisters, introduced, ii, 282 Blood root as remedy, 184 Blue vitriol, 373 Bodega, derivation, 95 Boils, Biblical remedy, 46, 73; cure for, 170 Bole armeniæ, medical uses, 216 Bologna sun-stone, 361 Bolus, meaning of, ii, 282 Bombast _See_ Paracelsus Borax, early use, 108 Borith, 324 Botanologoi, 95 Boulduc, French apothecary, 281 Boules de Mars, 402 de Nancy, 402 Boutique, derivation, 95 Bovins’s remedy, 374 Boyle investigates phosphorus, 365 Boyle’s “Hell,” 417 Boyveau-Laffecteur’s rob, 415 Brandt discovers phosphorus, 363 Brass, 426 Brass-alum, 427 “Breviarium Bartholomei,” 135 Brinvilliers, poisoner, ii, 232 British oils, 359; ii, 164 British Pharmacopœia, animal substances in, ii, 4; editions, ii, 69 Brockenden’s compressed drugs, ii, 167 Bromine, discoverer, 273; isolation, 339 Brongniart, French pharmacist, 276 Broom, Biblical plant, 65 Brugnatelli’s Poudre Vermifuge, 426 Bucklersbury, drug trade centre, 140 Burchell’s necklaces, ii, 171 Burghley’s gout preventive, 172 Bulleyn’s electuarium de Gemmis, ii, 35 Burnt sponge for scrofula, 353 Burt’s “Heartburn Tablets,” 388 Butter of antimony, 380 Byfield’s sal oleosum volatile, ii, 162