Godbold’s Vegetable Balsam, ii, 166 Goddard, Dr. J., note on, ii, 180 Goddard’s Drops, secret purchased, 319, 337; origin, ii, 179; uses, ii, 179 Godfrey’s Cordial, ii, 177 Gold, medicinal uses, 388; for covering pills, 389; cure for syphilis, 395; symbol, ii, 306; ii, 307; ii, 310. _See also_ Aurum Gold leaf, use of, 388 Golden Drops, 321 “Golden Water,” 329 Goose grease as remedy, ii, 12 Gout, remedies for, 129, 136, 167, 172, 215, 216, 217, 353; ii, 183 powder, Mayerne’s, 257; Duke of Portland’s, 215, 309 Gourd, Biblical plant, 66, 69 Goulard, biography, 264; discoveries, 265 Goulard’s extract, 265 Greeks, drugs used by, 77 Green precipitate, 417 Green vitriol, 372, 427 Gregory, Dr. Jas., portrait, ii, 137; publication, ii, 138 Gregory’s Powder, origin of, ii, 137; prescription for, ii, 138 Grew, Nehemiah, on Epsom salts, 342; portrait, 343 Griffith’s mixture, 403 Grocers’ Guild, 139, 147 Grubourt, French pharmacist, 282 Guaiacum, syphilis cure, 414; history, ii, 111; medical uses, ii, 112; preparation, ii, 113 Gutteta, ii, 290 Gwynne’s “Aurum non aurum,” 391 H Haarlem oil, origin, ii, 176 Hair oil, papyrus formula, 42 Hall, Dr., Shakespeare’s son-in-law, ii, 76 Haloid salts, 326 Ham, originator of medicine, 6 Hamech, a purgative, 203 Hammon, 6 Hammoniacus salt, 334 Hanckwitz advertisement, 141; makes phosphorus, 365 Hartman’s “Book of Chymicall Secrets,” 196 Headache Essence, Ward’s, ii, 214 Headache, early remedies, 41, 42, 44, 129 Heartburn tablets, 388 Hebenon, Shakespearian reference, ii, 83 Heberden, Dr. W., portrait, 291 Helbanah, 56 Helias’s letter to Alfred the Great, 114, 131 “Hell-stone,” 424 Hellebore as medicine, 12; used by Paracelsus, 246 Helvetius’s pills, 32; ipecacuanha secret, 319 Helvetius employs alum, 331; French physician, ii, 114 Hemlock, Biblical reference, 64 Henbane, etymology, ii, 276; toothache remedy, 168, 185. _See also_ Hyoscyamus. Henry VIII, medical knowledge, 294; plaster for ulcers, 295; Halford on, 295 Henry’s patent, 345 Heracleus honey as poison, ii, 226 Heraclides, 89 Herbalists earliest doctors, 1 Herbs, symbolical names, 35; used by Saxons, 124 Hermes, Greek god, 4; works of, 5, 162; Egyptian, 157; ii, 305 Hermodactyls, gout remedy, 217; ii, 183 Hezekiah’s boil, treatment, 46, 73 Hezob, 64 Hhawi, Rhazes’s book, 106 Hiera Diacolocynthidis, ii, 141 Hiera Picra, origin, ii, 138; antiquity, ii, 139; first formula, ii, 139; other recipes, ii, 140, 141 Hin, ancient measure, 59