by Richard Sugg
opium 146–47
orgasm 175, 186–87, 202
Orokaiva 122
Orsi, Andrea 128
Ostend, siege of (1601) 99–100, 108
Ouetecas people 134, 194
Pall Mall Gazette (1888) 276
Paracelsus 20–21, 22, 24, 33–34, 39–40, 42–43, 90, 96, 182; Chirurgia Magna 34
Paré, Ambroise 2, 21–22, 76, 99, 167, 205–6, 256; Works 206
Park, Katherine 177
Patai, Raphael 189, 265
Patterson, W.B. 212
Paulani, Christian Franz, Salutary Apothecary of Filth, wherein almost all diseases are cured with Excrement and Urine 169
Paxton, Frederick 183
Pazzi Conspiracy (1478) 17
Peacock, Mabel 81, 83
Peacock, Thomas Love, Nightmare Abbey 280–81
Pechey, John 103
Pepys, Samuel 69, 75, 137, 145, 156, 170, 217
Perceval, Robert 90
Percival, Thomas 251
Person, David 119
Perth, Earl of 142
Peters, Hugh 142
Petit, Jean-Louis 230
Pharmacopeia 35, 38, 136, 228
Philipott, Thomas 40
phthiriasis 150–51
Physical Directory 38
Pickingale, George 271, 272
Pico della Mirandola 18
Pierce, Mr 170
Pio, Padre (St Pius) 198
pissasphaltum 11
pissasphaltus 16
Pitt, Robert 249–50
Pius VI, Pope 231–32
Pix, Mary, The Innocent Mistress 218
placenta 35, 117
plague 15, 21, 52, 138–39, 159
Plancius, Petrus 72
Plat, Hugo 25
Platter, Thomas 141–42
pleurisy 56, 61, 110, 165
Pliny the Elder 10, 48, 118, 165
poisons, poisoning 21, 110, 180, 193, 194, 208
Polidori, John William 289; The Vampyre 281
Pollock, Linda A. 54
Pomet, Pierre 65–66, 70, 73–74, 76–77, 84, 90, 103–4, 173, 232, 259; Complete History of Drugs 65
Poole, Robert 228, 266
Popham, Hugh 282
Porter, Roy 140, 257
Powell, Walter 148
Prie, Madame de 156
Purchas, Samuel 71
Purmann, Matthias Gottfried 231
Pym, John 151
Queen’s Closet Opened, The (1656) 55
Quevedo, Francisco de, Visions 206–7
rabies 46, 232, 233
Radcliffe, Mary Ann 264
Radice, Mark 117
Raguseo, Francisco di 167
Raleigh, Sir Walter 119
Ramsey, William 149, 150
Rapple, Rory 102
Ratel, Jonathan 287–88
Ray, John, The Ornithology of Francis Willoughby of Middleton … Fellow of the Royal Society 27–28
red hair 20, 111, 181, 191, 193, 261; see also hair
Rees, Martin 284
Renaissance 14–16, 124, 128, 129, 141, 157, 176, 252
Resnik, H.L.P. 186
Restoration literature and drama 6, 217–27, 241
Reynolds, John 179
Rhazes 11
rheumatism 15, 25, 106, 107, 229
rhubarb 16–17, 23, 39, 252
Riario, Girolamo 17
Richards, Keith 8
Richardson, Ruth 81, 285
Riche, Barnaby 87
Roach, Mary 97, 236; Stiff 259
Roberts, Penny 99
Rochefort, César 133, 134
Roheim, Géza 279
Ross, Alexander 40, 72, 73, 176
Rowley, William 230
Royal College of Physicians 25, 38, 52, 230
Royal College of Surgeons 236
Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children 256
Royal Society 60, 63, 233, 239
Ruscelli, Girolamo 24; Book of Secrets 21
Russwurin, Valentine 25
Sade, Marquis de 199
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572) 99, 100, 129
Samper, David 287
Sanco-Panco 219
Sanday, Peggy Reeves 121
Sanderson, John 74
Sapor, King 73
Savage, Richard 95
Savonarola, Giovanni Michele 19
Savonarola, Girolamo 17
Savoy, Duke of 160
Savoy Hospital 44, 46, 97
Schellinks, William 142
Schmidt, Franz 188, 274
Schmidt, Johann Michael 83, 146
Schofield, Roger 141
Schroeder, Johann 111, 181, 192, 237, 248; Zoologia 56
Schwyzer, Philip 3, 72
sciatica 233–34
Science News 260
scorpions 36
Scots Magazine (1798) 266
Scott, John 125
Scribonius Largus 9
Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf 16
Seitz, Lorenz 83, 146
self-mutilation 117–18
semen 7, 8, 25, 169, 175, 186, 201
Seminole Indians 182
Severoli, Carlo 199
Sévigné, Madame de 165
Shadwell, Thomas 220
Shafran, Bezalel 287, 290
Shakespeare, William 26, 32, 71, 75, 97, 125, 127, 136, 138, 148, 167, 169, 273
Shaw, Peter 230
Shearwood, Tom 89
Sheldon, Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury 59
Shilander, Cornelius 24
Shirley, James, Bird in a Cage 209
Shufang, Wu 123
Sidney, Sir Henry 102
Silver, Carole G. 271
Simpson, Jacqueline 266
Simpson, John 268
Sixtus IV, Pope 17
skin 91, 92, 117, 236
skull, human 12, 84, 98, 208, 230, 257, 258, 268; distillation from 64–65, 185; moss of 1, 8, 32, 40–41, 56, 58, 59, 60–61, 74, 101, 104, 147, 185, 186, 203, 229, 232, 236, 246, 248, 265, 266; powdered 1, 8, 15, 22, 24, 32, 35, 36, 40, 53, 57, 152, 169, 229, 236, 267; recipes for 15, 35, 39, 45, 53–54, 57, 58, 229, 252, 267; recommended 6, 238; salt distilled from 25, 66; spirit of 45, 64–66, 228–29; trade in 2, 4, 96, 118, 177, 237–38; wearing pieces of 32;
smallpox 140–41, 153, 159, 235
Smith, A.J. 33
Smith, Richard (later Bishop of Chalcedon) 29, 30, 31
Smith, Sir Thomas 103
Smith, Virginia 152–53
Social History of Medicine journal 261
Society of Chemical Physicians 52
Sonmez, Yusuf Ercin 287, 288–89
Sörgel, Johann Georg 83
soul 174–76, 192; alchemising the corpse 192–96; eating 178–88; Egyptian mummy 178–79; life forces in early modern corpse medicine 179–81; Paracelsian life forces 181–88
sources of body parts and fluids 4, 77–112, 255; anatomists 90–92; bloodsucking 110–12; bodysnatching 92–98; executions 77–89; France, Italy and Britain 84–87; Germanic/Scandinavian countries 77–83; gibbet and the wheel 89–90; human fat 105–10; Ireland 101–5; theft 90; warfare and massacres 98–105
Southwell, Robert 86–87
Sowerbutts, Grace 273–74
Spencer, John 178
Spenser, Edmund 119–20
Spierenburg, Pieter 88
spirits 41–42, 46–49, 175–76, 182, 184–87, 194, 230, 278
Sprenger, Jacob 18
Staden, Hans 121
stench 153–55, 157, 172; cemeteries and battlefields 158–59; dungeons and prisons 160–61; hospitals and sickrooms 159–60; invasive 161–63
Stevens, Sacheverell 97
Stoker, Bram, Dracula 281
Stone, Lawrence 152, 264
Stromeyer, Louis 78, 90
Struensee, Comte de 160
Stuart, Kathy 80, 83, 169, 236
superstition 252–55, 266–72; human candles 273–78; love magic 278–83
surgery 143–46, 167, 170, 231
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bsp; Swan, John 76
syphilis 126–27, 229
Tait, Lawson 137
Tannahill, Reay 260–61
Tapuia people 119
Taylor, Anne 52
Taylor, Edward 197
Taylor, Jeremy 118, 119
Taylor, M.R. 271
teeth 10, 84, 85, 148–49
Temkin, Owsei 11
Tentzel, Andreas 182, 185, 187, 191; Medicina Diastatica, or Sympathetical Mummy 43
Tertullian 8
Thatcher, Margaret 149
Theophrastus 216
Thevet, André 119, 120, 122–23, 291
Thirty Years War (1618–48) 100, 131–32
Thomas, Keith 102, 137, 155, 157–58, 163
Thompson, C.J.S. 64, 265
Thomson, George 15, 52–53
Thorndike, Lynn 25, 43, 182
Thorne, Tony 18–19, 187
Thornton, Alice 54
Times, The (1836) 275–76
Toledo, Francisco de 126
Toope, Dr 93–94, 179
Topsell, Edward 136
Tradescant, John, the younger (1608–62) 15
Trenkler, Johann Georg 91
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 35
Trigg, Jonathan 93
Trumbull, Lady Anne 64
tumours see cancers and tumours
Tupinamba Indians 4, 8, 114, 120–21, 122, 123, 124, 129, 130, 132, 203, 290
Turberville, George 24; The Book of Falconry or Hawking 26–27
Turner, Daniel 229
Tutsis 123
Twisse, William 125
Tylor, E.B. 182
typhus fever 35–36
ulcers 13, 15, 21, 229
Umeda tribe 8, 234
Ungerer, Gustav 24
urine 5, 11, 15, 25, 45, 56, 61, 66, 117, 137, 149, 152, 156–57, 164–67, 169, 173, 205, 226, 230
Ursins, Christophe des 21–22, 206
usnea see skull, moss
Ussher, James 68
Valadez, F.M. 257, 258, 262
vampires, vampirism 7, 14, 18, 110–12, 120, 139, 176, 278–83
van Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand 56, 159, 165
van Helmont, Jean Baptiste 39–40, 40–42, 47, 110, 173, 175, 177, 178, 185
Vansleb, Father Johann Michael 70, 72
Vaughan, Henry 56
Vaughan, Thomas 52
Vaux, Theodore de 253
Vega, Garcilaso de la 73, 191
venomous bites 15
Vesalius, Andreas 90, 175
Vicary, Thomas 167
Victoria, Queen 248
Victorian period 266–72
Viola, Paolo 129
Walker, George 159
Walkington, Thomas 176
Wallis, Patrick 24
Walpole, Horace 248
Walton, Izaak, Complete Angler 251
Wanley, Nathaniel 177
warfare and massacres 98–105
Wari’ tribe 4, 6, 115–17, 119, 122, 123, 203
Warner, Elizabeth 183
Wars of Religion 101, 129, 132
Webster, Charles 6, 35, 39, 44, 51, 55, 190
Webster, John 227; The Duchess of Malfi 139, 210, 282; The White Devil 209–10, 282
Wecker, Johann Jacob 24
Weesop, John 86
Weinstock, June D. 287
Wells, Winifred 170
Wesley, Samuel 72
Wetli, Charles 186
White, Caroline A., ‘Simples and their Superstitions’ 269–70
Wiedermann, Johann Geord 78
William III 228
Williams, Roger 125–26
Willis, Thomas 57–59, 64, 152, 160, 166
Wilson, F.P. 139
Wiseman, Richard 232
witches, witchcraft 18, 29, 124, 126, 127, 253–54, 270–71, 272, 273–76
Wither, George 200–201, 219
Woffington, Peg 249
Woodward, John 241
worms 149–50, 153, 179
wounds 15, 21, 32, 41, 83, 100, 106, 107, 110, 167, 176, 186, 229, 231, 235, 269
Wright, Lawrence 157
Wrigley, E.A. 141
Wycherley, Thomas, The Plain Dealer 220
Yanomami tribe 117
Yi, Zheng 123
Yorkshire Herald, The (1892) 266
Young, Sidney 91
Zimra, David ben 188–89