Diahexapala

Or Diahexapte. See Laurus Alexandrinus.

Diaion

(From and a violet). The name of a pastil in Myrepsus. Violets are its chief ingredient.

Diaireos

(From and a lily). An antidote in Myrepsus, containing the lily root.

Dialacca

(From and lacca). An antidote in the same author, containing lacca.

Dialagou

(From and lepus, a hare).

A medicine, whose chief ingredient is the dung of a hare.

Dialepsis

(From to leave a space between ). To intermit. Sec Apolepsis.

Dialibanon

(From --, and frankincense ). A name of several medicines in which frankincense is an ingredient.

Dialoes

(From --, and the aloe). A composition in which is aloes.

Dialthaea

(From --, and the mal low) . The name of an ointment in Myrepsus, the prototype of the althaea ointment.

Dialysis

(From to dissolve, or render languid,) also dissolutio. A dissolution of the strength, or a weakness of the limbs; applied by Hippocrates to the cause of the debility, particularly of the winds, hence austri dissolventes. It is expressive also of a discontinuity or division of a part.

Dialytica

(From the same). A solution of continuity as in fractures, or wounds.

Diamarenatum

(From and acid cherries). It is a confection of acid cherries, called amarenae, reduced to a pulp, passed through a sieve, then mixed with sugar, and aromatics. See Schroder. Pharmacopoeia Medico Chimica, lib. 4, p. 41.

Diamargariton

(From and pearl). An antidote in which pearls are the chief ingredient.

Diam Ascien

See AEris flos. Diamassema, (from to chew). A masticatory.

Diambrae Pillulae

From and amber). See Aromaticae pilulae.

Diambrae species, Species aromaticae, now Pul-vis aromaticus. The prescription is originally Me-sue's, and had its name from the ambergrise in the composition. See Aromaticae species.