INDEX TO THE PATENT MEDICINES, AND NOSTRUMS, DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK.
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“Arcana revelata fœtent.”—Boerh:
“Nullum Ego cognosco remedium nisi quod Tempestivo usu fiat tale.”—Ibid.
Ague Drop, 411
Almond Paste, 277
Anderson’s Pills, 271
Anodyne Necklaces, 13 & 397
Anti-Pertussis, 522
Anti-Venereal Drops, 390
Aromatic Lozenges of Steel, 374
Aromatic Vinegar, 253
Bailey’s Itch Ointment, 520
Balsam of Honey, 314
Balsam of Horehound, 438
Balsam of Liquorice, 380
Barclay’s Antibilious Pills, 363
Bark, essential Salt of, 332
Bateman’s Pectoral Drops, 326
Bate’s Anodyne Balsam, 408
Battley’s Liquor opii Sedativus, 440
Beaume de Vie, 271
Black Drop, 440
Blaine’s Powder, 487
Boerhaave’s Red Pill, 395
Brodum’s Nervous Cordial, 379
Cephalic Snuff, 492
Chamberlain’s Restorative Pills for Scrofula, 395
Chamomile Drops, 279
Charcoal, Concentrated solution of, 322
Chelsea Pensioner, 381
Cheltenham Salts, 480
Cheltenham Salts, the original combined, 480
Cheltenham Salts, the efflorescence of, 480
Ching’s Worm Lozenges, 394
Cochrane Major, his Cough Medicine, 490
Colley’s Depilatory, 452
Corn Plaister, 359
Cough Drops, 438
Court Plaister, 359
Crespigny Lady, her Pills, 271
Daffy’s Elixir, 505
Dalby’s Carminative, 418
550Davidson’s Remedy for Cancer, 298
De La Motte’s Golden Drops, 506
Delcroix’s Depilatory, 298
Dinner Pills, 271
Dixon’s Antibilious Pills, 271
Dutch Drops, 497
Eaton’s Styptic, 83
Eau Medicinale de Husson, 339
Economical Breakfast Powder, 493
Edinburgh Ointment, 509
Elixir of Longevity, 271
Elixir of Vitriol, 265
Essence of Vitriol, 265
Essence of Bitter Almonds, 431
Essence of Coffee, 325
Essence of Coltsfoot, 314
Essence of Mustard, 475
Essence of Mustard Pills, 475
Essence of Peppermint, 421
Essence of Senna, 401
Essence of Spruce, 495
Essential Salt of Bark, 331
Essential Salt of Lemons, 407
Everlasting Pills, 280
Ford’s Laudanum, 515
Ford’s Balsam of Horehound, 438
Fothergill’s Pills, 271
Freeman’s Bathing Spirits, 408
Friar’s Balsam, 314
Fumigating Pastiles, 313
Godbold’s Vegetable Balsam, 442
Godfrey’s Cordial, 468
Godfrey’s Smelling Salts, 275
Golden Drops, 506
Golden Ointment, 298
Golden Spirits of Scurvy Grass, 317
Gout Tincture, Wilson’s, 340
Gowland’s Lotion, 390
Green’s Drops, 390
Greenough’s Tincture, 503
Grindle’s Cough Drops, 438
Guestonian Embrocation for the Rheumatism, 497
551Hannay’s Lotion, 415
Hatfield’s Tincture, 381
Hill’s Essence of Bardana, 381
Honey Water, 421
Hooper’s Pills, 271
Hudson’s Preservative for the Teeth, 503
Huiles Antiques, 430
Hungary Water, 482
Hunt’s Breakfast Powder, 493
Ipecacuanha Lozenges, 403
James’s Powder, 458
James’s Analeptic Pills, 458
Jesuit’s Drops, 314
Jackson’s Bathing Spirits, 408
Keyser’s Pills, 247
Lancaster or Black Drop, 440
Lardner’s Prepared Charcoal, 322
Lemons, Essential Salt of, 407
Liquor Opii Sedativus, 440
Lynch’s Embrocation, 408
Madden’s Vegetable Essence, 400
Magnesian Cheltenham Salts, 480
Marsden’s Antiscorbutic Drops, 390
Marseilles Vinegar, 253
Marshall’s Cerate, 329
Matthew’s Pills, 382
Matthew’s Injection, 504
Mock Arrack, 486
Moseley’s Pills, 462
Necklaces, Anodyne, 13
Norris’s Drops, 284
Norton’s Drops, 390
Nouffleur’s Vermifuge, 31
Opodeldoc, Steer’s, 408
Oxley’s Essence of Jamaica Ginger, 522
Pastilles, 313
Pate Arsenicale, 298
Peter’s Pills, 271
Pectoral Balsam of Honey, 314
Pectoral Balsam of Liquorice, 380
Permanent Ink, 293
Portland Powder, 32
Plunkett’s Ointment, 297
Radcliffe’s Elixir, 271
Refined Liquorice, 364
Remedy for the Tooth-ache, 318
Remedies various for the Hooping Cough, 522
552Riga Balsam, 495
Rob Antisyphilitique, 390
Roche’s Embrocation for the Hooping Cough, 430
Royal Preventive, 450
Ruspini’s Tincture, 503
Rymer’s Cardiac Tincture, 321
Scouring Drops, 497
Seidlitz Powders, 476
Senna, Prepared Essence of, 401
Singleton’s Eye Salve, 298
Sirop de Cuisiniere, 390
Smellone’s Eye Salve, 267
Snuff Cephalic, 452
Sodaic Powers, 476
Solomon’s Anti-Impetigines, 390
Solomon’s Balm of Gilead, 504
Speediman’s Pills, 271
Spilsbury’s Antiscorbutic Drops, 390
Squire’s Elixir, 438
Starkey’s Pills, 382
Starkey’s Soap, 496
Steer’s Opodeldoc, 408
Sterry’s Plaister, 357
Stephens’s Mrs. Remedy for the Stone, 412
Storey’s Worm Cakes, 394
Stroughton’s Elixir, 379
Struve’s Lotion, 430
Sulphur Lozenges, 488
Swinton’s Daffey’s Elixir, 505
Taylor’s Remedy for Deafness, 269
Taylor’s Red Bottle, 486
Thieves’ Vinegar, 254
Thompson’s Cheltenham Salts, 480
Tolu Lozenges, 312
Transparent Soap, 467
Velno’s Vegetable Syrup, 390
Virgin’s Milk, 414
Wade’s Drops, 314
Walker’s Jesuit Drops, 381
Ward’s Essence for the Head-ache, 408
Ward’s Paste, 312
Ward’s White Drops, 390
Ward’s Red Drops, 514
Ward’s Sweating Powder, 508
Warner’s Cordial, 462
Webster, Lady, her Pills, 271
Whitehead’s Essence of Mustard, 475
Wilson’s Gout Tincture, 340
Worm Cakes, 394
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
P. ix, changed “notorius Quack Medicines” to “notorious Quack Medicines”.
P. 21, changed “antisyphylitic powers” to “antisyphilitic powers”.
P. 28, changed “Ipecacuhan had been imported” to “Ipecacuan had been imported”.
P. 82, changed “absosolute and relative remedies” to “absolute and relative remedies”.
P. 174, changed “mucus of the uretha” to “mucus of the urethra”.
P. 189, changed “erysipelatous efflorence” to “erysipelatous efflorescence”.
P. 279, changed “brused seeds” to “bruised seeds”.
P. 298, changed “Desgrangès (Recueil Period: de la Societé” to “Desgranges (Recueil Period: de la Société”.
P. 302, changed “alkaline phospate” to “alkaline phosphate”.
P. 307, “1 000,000” is unchanged from the original.
P. 311, changed “Myroxylon Pruiferum” to “Myroxylon Peruiferum”.
P. 329, “Sp. Grav. 9·433” is grossly overstated.
P. 333, changed “opothecary at Annecy” to “apothecary at Annecy”.
P. 386, changed “forms of Desentery” to “forms of Dysentery”.
P. 398, changed “tatarized antimony” to “tartarized antimony”.
P. 403, changed “when administed” to “when administered”.
P. 414, changed “Saturine applications” to “Saturnine applications”.
P. 434, split the three part footnote with three anchors into three distinct footnotes.
P. 454, changed “iron, and maganese” to “iron, and manganese”.
P. 467, changed “suphate of zinc” to “sulphate of zinc”.
P. 476, changed “hexaedral prisms” to “hexahedral prisms”.
Table of Contents added by transcriber.
Silently corrected punctuation errors and variations in spelling.
Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.