Note 496 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Diachylon, a δὶα et χυλος succus, i. e. a Plaster prepared from expressed juices. It has been asserted that all the pharmaceutical names beginning with Dia, are of Arabian origin, this however is not the fact; we frequently meet with the expression in Galen, η δὶα δικτάμνου ὴ δια δυοἷν ἁριστολοχιοὶν ἠ δι, &c. &c.