Solomon’s treatise on medicine, 49; magical secrets, 159 The Hebrew, 157 Soluble mercury, 418 “Solvent mineral,” ii, 135 Somnus, god of sleep, 17 “Sons of God” legend, 3 Sorbito, ii, 299 Sorcery, identified with pharmacy, 52; held in esteem, 160 Sparadrap, ii, 299 de Vigo, 411 Specificum purgans, 244, 371 Spermaceti, medical use, ii, 28; derivation, ii, 29; Shakespearian reference, ii, 74 Spicerers’ Guild, 139 Spiders, medical use, ii, 14 Spielman’s Vermifuge Electuary, 426 Spikenard, value, 73; Biblical reference, 73; ointment, 73, 74 Spirit of nitrous ether, origin, 349; early formulæ, 349 of salt, Valentine describes, 228; discovery, 263, 369; medical uses, 369; properties, 370 of tartar, 372 of vitriol, 373, 374 of wine. _See_ Alcohol. Spiritus Ætheris Co., origin, 348 Ætheris Nitrosi. _See_ Spirit of Nitrous Ether Ammoniæ Succinatus, 338 Ammoniæ Aromaticus, 335, 337 Mundi, 361 Nitri Dulcis. _See_ Spirit of Nitrous Ether Salis Marini Glauberi. _See_ Spirit of Salt Volatilis Oleosus, 335, 337 Vini Ethereus. _See_ Ether Vitrioli Antepilepticus Paracelsi, 347 Spilsbury’s Anti-scorbutic Drops, ii, 166 “Spot Ward,” ii, 213 Spruce Dr., obtains cinchona seeds, ii, 105 Squill called Eye of Typhon, 35; vinegar, 18 Stacte, identity, 56, 63 Stahl’s theory of the elements, 175; portrait, 176 Starcraft, Saxon, 124 Starkey’s Pills, origin, ii, 154 Stationarii, 118 Steer’s opodeldoc, ii, 150 Stephens’s Cure for stone, 319; ii, 199; recipe, ii, 200 Sterling, derivation, 138 Stibium, _See_ Antimony Stimmi, 378 Stoughton’s Cordial Elixir, ii, 162 Stramonium, history, ii, 119; introduction, ii, 120 Structural formulæ, ii, 261 Strychnine, discovery, ii, 248 Strychnos manikon, 25 Sublimation dulce, 419 Suffumenta, ii, 299 Suffumigia, ii, 299 Substitution theory, ii, 259 Sugar, arabic derivation, 103; a rarity, ii, 30 Sulphonal, preparation, ii, 272 Sulphur, symbol, ii, 309 Sulphuric acid, 373 Sun-stone, 361 Supplantalia, ii, 299 Suppositories, ii, 299 Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist, 285 Swediaur’s pilula ferri, 351 Sweet spirit of nitre, _See_ Spirit of Nitrous Ether Sydenham, on iron, 399; portrait, 400; laudanum, ii, 143 Sylvius’s Carminative Spirit, 337 salt, 336 Sympathetic egg, 190 ointment, 188, 189, 190; ii, 6 powder, 191 remedies, 187 Symbols, alchemical, ii, 304, ii, 308, ii, 309 Synthetic Remedies, ii, 256