Note 80 — HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

Amlyum, the Starch of wheat, originally denoted a powder that was obtained without the application of a mill, from α, not, and μυλος, a mill; thus Dioscorides “Αμυλον ὡνόμασται δἷα τὸ χωρὶς μυλου κατασκευαζεσθαὶ”—i. e. because it is prepared without a mill.