Libanos, meaning, 55 Liebig, portrait, 283; mistake of, 339 Lign aloes, Biblical reference, 63 Lilium, Paracelsus’s, 244 Limbeck, 328; etymology, ii, 279 Lime water, efficacy, 356 Linamentum, ii, 290 Linimentum camphoræ compositæ, origin, ii, 210, ii, 214 Lion, medical, use, ii, 12 Liquor Bismuthi, introduction, 387 Cranii Humani, ii, 5 Lisbon Diet Drink, ii, 155 Lisle’s Powder for Fevers, ii, 191 Litharge, 406 Lithargyrum Argenti, 406 Auri, 406 Lithium discovery, 353; uses, 353 Liver complaint, ancient diagnosis, 39; old remedy, 288 Lixivium, 324 Saponarium, 325 Tartari, 372 Lizards’ blood, 39 Locatelli’s balsam, 32; ii, 159 Locusta, poisoner, ii, 224 Lohn’s writing board, 163 London Pharmacopœia, the first, 103, 133; compiler, 146, 218, 256; criticised, 290, 418; formulæ, ii, 38, ii, 39, ii, 40, ii, 41; how prepared, ii, 60; contents, ii, 61; title-page, ii, 63; translation, ii, 67; formulæ, ii, 146 Long, Dr., ether anæsthetist, ii, 249 Long, St. John, biography, ii, 192; portrait, ii, 193; income, ii, 194; death, ii, 195 Long’s Liniment, ii, 192, ii, 196 Looch, origin of word, ii, 292 Lozenges, ii, 299 Luban, meaning of, 56 Luce, Lille, pharmacist, 339 Lully, Raymond, biography, 221; portrait, 222; on aqua vitæ, 329 Luminous pills, 365 Lunar caustic, ii, 311 Luna fixata, 428 Lupus Metallorum, 379 Lydgate, note on, ii, 286 M Maceration, ii, 292 Machaon, son of Æsculapius, 11 Macquer, French chemist, 277; arsenical salt, 277 Madder, used by Saxons, 126 Magdaleo, meaning of, ii, 292 Magic and medicine, 2, 157 Magistery of Bismuth, ii, 293 of Human skull, ii, 6 meaning of, ii, 293 of Saturn, 407 Magma, ii, 293 Magnes Arsenicalis, ii, 293 Magnesia, medical use, 354; preparation, 354; etymology, 354; confused with manganese, 355; in mineral springs, 355; Black, on, 356 of Gold, 355 Magnesian stone, 354 Magnesium, preparation, 357 Magnets as cures, 199 Magnus, Albertus, describes caustic potash, 325 Magog identified with Prometheus, 12 Maimonides, Jewish scholar, 111; remedies for poison, ii, 34 Malagmata, 91; ii, 294 Malascation, meaning of, ii, 294 Male fern, tapeworm remedy, 320, 321 Mallows, Biblical plant, 65 Man, parts of, used in medicine, ii, 4 Mandrake, legends, 19; as sterility remedy, 20, 48; ancient uses of, 21 Mandragora, legends of, 19; Shakespearian reference, ii, 75; on battle-field, ii, 225 Manhu, derivation of manna, 60 Manica Hypocratis, ii, 294 Manipulus, ii, 294