Manna, Biblical, 60; sources, 61; Avicenna, uses, 109 Manna metallorum, 419 Manus Christi, meaning of, ii, 294 Manus Dei, meaning of, ii, 294 Marcquis’s “Aloe Morbifuga,” ii, 89 Markham, Sir C., introduces cinchona into India, ii, 102; on derivation of cinchona, ii, 103; “Peruvian Bark,” ii, 105 Marmalades, origin of, ii, 294 Marsh’s arsenic test, ii, 241 Martial Regulus of Antimony, 379 Masticatories, meaning of, ii, 294 Matrass, ii, 294 Matthews’s Pills, origin of, ii, 154 Mauve, discovery, ii, 263 May dew for the complexion, 173 Mayerne, Sir Theodore de, 144; portrait, 145; biography, 146, 255; impeached, 384; introduces calomel, 418; anti-epileptic powder, ii, 6; writes preface to P. L., ii, 61; burlesqued, ii, 71 Maythe, use in medicine, 125 Measures, signs for, ii, 300 Meat, putrid, in medicine, 39 Meconic acid, discovery, ii, 245 Medea, medical discoveries, 17; inventor of poisons, ii, 221 Medea oil, 359 Medical aphorisms in Talmud, 50 treatises in verse, 137 Medicamentarii, 92 Medicamentum ad annum, 310; ii, 177 Medicina, 95 Medicine, origin of, 2; associated with magic, 2; traditional founder, 2; god of, 6; as a science, 88; separation from pharmacy, 91; and magic, 157 Medicines, charges for, 149, 150 from metals, 376 Megillat-Sammanin, treatise on pharmacology, 49 Megrims diagnosis, 128; early remedy, 129 Mel Egyptiacum, ii, 52 Helleboratum, Culpepper, on, 251 Melampus, medicinal discoveries, 12, 13; uses iron as remedy, 397 Mellites, ii, 294 Menecrates, 91; originator of diachylon, ii, 127; ii, 129 Mensis Philosophicus, ii, 294 Menstruum, meaning of, ii, 294 Mentha, legend of, 26 Mercury, ancient god, 4; medical use, 243; origin of name, 408; used by Arabs, 409; medical uses, 409; as syphilis cure, 409, 410; “killing,” 421; symbol for, ii, 305, ii, 306, ii, 310. _See also_ Corrosive Sublimate, Red Precipitate, Calomel, _and_ Quicksilver Mercurial ointment, 132, 410, 421 pills, early formulæ, 411, 412, 421 Mesué, the elder, 101, 105, 217, 218 Mesué, the younger, 110, 217, 218 Mesué’s unguentum tripharmacum, 406 Mesmer, note on, 201; animal magnetism, ii, 167 Messiah, meaning of, 60 Metalepsy, ii, 259 Metallic Tractors, 201; ii, 166 Metals in Ebers’s papyrus, 40; as remedies, 186; symbols, ii, 304 Metasyncretics, ii, 282 Methel nut, ii, 119 Midas, punishment of, 7 Midwifery, anæsthetics in, ii, 251 Migmatopoloi, 95 Mindererus’s spirit, invention, 338; first official, ii, 67