Plague remedy, 224 Planets, as aids to prescribing, 187 Plantain, Shakespearian reference, ii, 74 Plasters, Aetius on, 215 Pleurisy, old remedy, 81 Pliny, death, 90 Plough, inventor, 288 Plummer, Dr. A., note on, ii, 153 Æthiops Medicinalis, 382 pills, 351; origin, ii, 153 powder, 382 Pocula Emetica, 385 Podalirus, son of Æsculapius, 11 Poisoners, famous, ii, 230 Poison, antidotes, ii, 34, ii, 49, ii, 221, ii, 237, ii, 289 origin of word, ii, 297 register introduced, 123 Poisoning, delayed, ii, 223 detecting. _See_ Toxicology punishment, ii, 230 Poisons, in Bible, ii, 222; history of, ii, 220; used in Rome, ii, 223; in ancient times, ii, 225; in Middle Ages, ii, 227 Polychrest, 369, 371; ii, 198, ii, 297 Polyidus, magician, 13 Pomatum, ii, 298 Pomegranates, Biblical reference, 72 Pompholyx, 209, 407, 427 Poppy, in Saxon times, 126; as remedy, 184; Shakespearian reference, ii, 75 Poppies, syrup, origin, ii, 116 Populeum, ii, 298 Porta, medical author, 183 Portland powder, 215, 309; ii, 125 Posca, 71 Potassium nitrate. _See_ Nitre sulphate, synonyms, 371 Potato, popularising, 273 Potio Laxativa Viennensis, ii, 121 Potion Noire Anglaise, ii, 122 Poudre des Chartres, secret purchased, 319, 381 Poultice, papyrus formula, 40; etymology, ii, 298 Powder de Gutteta, ii, 6 of Projection, 379 Saturn, 407 Precious stones, medical use, ii, 32 Precipitatus per se, 416 Prepositus’s Antidotary, 116 Prescribing by chemists, limitation, 155 Prescriptions on papyri, 36, 41; from “Don Juan,” ii, 59; origin, ii, 304 Priestley discovers oxygen, 270 Primum Ens Sanguinis, ii, 7 Proine, ii, 258 Prometheus, the first pharmacist, 12 Propomata, ii, 298 Prosdita, ii, 299 Prussian blue, discovery, ii, 27, ii, 28 Prussic acid, discovery, 270 Psilothrum, ii, 298 Ptisans, ii, 299 Ptomaines, discovery, ii, 242 Pulvis Cornacchini, 309 Principis Mirandolæ, 310 Scammoniæ co., origin, 308 Pyroligneous acid, made by Glauber, 263 Pyroxylin, discovery, 340 Pythagoras antidote, 18 Q Quack doctor’s harangue, ii, 204 Quackery in ninth century, 107 Quakers’ Black Drop, ii, 145 Quassia, introduction, ii, 117; etymology, ii, 118 Quevenne’s iron, 404 Quicksilver, first mention, 408; bottles for, 408; girdles, 420. _See also_ Mercury Quinodine, discovery, ii, 247 Quinine, discovery, 274; ii, 246; synthetic, ii, 264, ii, 265 Quinsy, Hippocrates’s treatment, 86 Quintessences, prepared by Paracelsus, 246; ii, 243 R Ra’s ointment, 43 Rakach, meaning of, 52 Raleigh’s Great Cordial, 310, 312