Warts, remedies, 169 transferring, 170, 172. _See also_ Wort-cunning Watercress, medical use, 125 Weapon salve. _See_ Sympathetic Ointment Weights, ancient, 44, 59 signs for, ii, 300 Wellcome Research Laboratory (Khartoum), 162 Wells, H., uses nitrous oxide gas, ii, 249; portrait, ii, 250 Whisky, early use, 329 White lead ointment, 288, 406 White vitriol, 373, 426 Whitworth doctors, ii, 215; cures, ii, 216 Whooping-cough, transferring, 170 Wiener, Frank, ii, 121 Willis, Dr., portrait, 401 Willis’s Preparation of Steel, 400, 401 Witches’ powers, 171 Withering, Dr. W., biography, ii, 110; on digitalis, ii, 110 Wohler’s discovery, ii, 257; portrait, ii, 258 “Wolf of Metals,” 379 Wondreton, poisoner, ii, 227 Woodcock’s Wind Pills, ii, 167 Wool fat used by Dioscorides, 210 Words, origin of, 33 Worms, early remedy, 42, 43, 245 Wormwood, Biblical reference, 64 Wort-cunning, Saxon, 124 Wound Balsam, ii, 135 Writing, invention, 4 Z Zebethum Occidentale, ii, 9 Zinc, early references, 426; alloys, 426; composition, 427; preparations, 427; symbol, ii, 309 oxide, synonyms, 427 sulphate. _See_ White Vitriol Zoroaster, inventor of medicine, 6, 157 R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD., BREAD ST. HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. FOOTNOTES: [1] The historical part of Dr. Tschirch’s great work on Pharmakognosie is in course of publication while the proofs of this book are being read. It promises to be very thorough and modern in regard to drugs. [2] Labdanum or ladanum is a resinous substance which exudes from the leaves and branches of a shrub found in the Isle of Candy--_Cistus creticus_ of Linnæus. It was formerly collected by combing the beards of goats which fed on these leaves. A commoner kind was brought from Spain. It was an ingredient in an anti-hysteric nerve cordial called Theriaque Cœleste. It was also combined in a plaster designed to cure rupture. [3] The footman story is also told of the owner of Murray’s Specific for Gout, of whom it was probably true. [4] Synthetic cocaine and other artificial alkaloids differ from the natural products only in being without action on polarised light. [5] John Lydgate, a monk of Bury, born 1370, left some amusing poems, very valuable on account of the insight they give into the customs of his period. One of them is an application to the Duke of Gloucester for money. Lydgate says he is dressed in black “’cause my purs was falle in grete rerage”; while his “guttes were out shake, Only for lak of plate and coyngnage.” So he “sought lechis for a restauratif, In whom I fonde no consolacione, To a poticary for confortatyf, Drugge nor dya was none in Bury towne.” Transcriber’s Note: 1. Obvious printers’, spelling and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.