[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c9.s3.44 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s3.44 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s3.44 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.s3.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s3.44) (1) "Argentum vivum cum extinguitur ardens est, quod scabei, et pediculis auxilium offert"—Rhazes :"de Re med." (lib iii. cap. xxiv). In the days of Pliny the Elder the medicinal virtues of mercury do not appear to have been at all ascertained; that writer termed quicksilver the bane and poison of all things and what would with more propriety be called death silver. "Nat. Hist." lib xxxiii. Cap. vi). - [Previous: v1.c9.s3.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s3.43) - [Next: v1.c9.s3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s3.45) - [Up: v1.c9.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s3) ## Cites (1) - [Naturalis historia](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder) — C. Plinius Secundus, Latin --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s3.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s3.44) · Pramāṇa