DIA 
gallons of pe water to the palais ben of a ani 
give a pint of the liquor bes times a da this ditor- 
sr nei proceeds from violent exerc cite, overttrain- 
» &c. repeated bleedings in "fenall ati are abfolutely 
ae till the mouths of the veffels clo! 
Diaseres, in Hydraulics, is pee se a ts phon, the two 
legs or branches whereof are inclofed in one another; as in 
the glafs defcribed by Hero, which runs ne quite pan 
without being inverted, ‘as a as the water is arrived act 
height of the upper bran yphon 
DIABLINDI, i Ace Gengraphy, a people of Gaul, 
fituated between the Redon and the Aulerci 
- on thee Their apets was Neca 
DIABOLUS Marinus. See Sea-Devi 
DI: ABOLANUM. from dia and Go: sna ‘hob, in Phar- 
macy and pal ea denotes a plalter of herbs, neon 
wens, &c. are refol and difcuffed. The diabotanum is 
fovereign for the hydati 
DIABROSIS, in ‘Medicine, a term ufed by the older 
riters to denote a rupture of the veffels, in confequence of 
alte corrofion of acrid humours. It is derived from dix and 
Ceicl;, erofion, Thus an hemoptyfis, or aaa of blood 
from the lungs, was faid to take place in feveral ways, as by 
a violent rupture of the veffels, ve a dilatation of their ori- 
fices, and by a sae when the veffels were corroded by 
the acrimony o uids. Vogel has conftituted a genus 
of difeafe, in his fol begs under the title of diabrofis, and 
efines it, © an erofion of the fin by an acrid matter, either 
internal or external’? See his Genera Morbor. clals x. 
r 
DIACARYON, or Dianucum, in Pharmacy. See 
Dianucum. 
he word is formed from da, and xapua, walnut. 
Galen is faid to have prepared his diacaryon with the 
juice of walnuts, mixed with as much honey as {ufficed to 
render it an agreeable compofitio 
[ACAUSTIC Curve, or ce by Refrattion. See 
Cauftic Curve 
DIACENTROS, from div, through, and xsvzpov, centre, 
in Afronomy, is ufed by Kepler to fignify the fhortelt dia- 
meter of the elliptical ons of any gous probably becaufe 
gh the centre, aad not through the focus, 
res 3 t is, when the e from t 
aca tens 3; an ioaaas ne faccnly happens from large 
wounds in the 
_ A —- L cvres, in Pharmacy, the name of a plaf- 
ter. LAS 
or eaat ae in "Gergrapy, a town : Pie in the pro- 
vince of Mazanderan; 2 s S. W. of veh. 
DIACHERSIS, in ye A , a town of Af- 
rica, in the ef renaica, where the Romans had a ae 
eg gee RISTA, from dx and Xeuw, J anoint, a ham 
the ancient writers in medicine to certain compo- 
eben whofe ufe was to be applied to an “ cule pa- 
late, and tongue, for the abfterfion of p 
DIAC ON, in — pee a ‘platter, now Called 
litharge plafter by the colteg phyficians. It is one of 
the molt fimple sand emollien fon adapted for the 
seh of indurated fuelling See Praster, and Li- 
“ DIACODIATE, in the older writers on Medicine, fyna- 
ous with narcotic, or opiate, from da and xwdem, the poppy- 
i ee or capfule. See Van Swicten. 
DIA 
DIACODIUM, in Pharmacy, the name of a Aad - 
AC 
principal ingredient of which is ‘the white poppy-! 
which pofleffes much of the anodyne property of aie ce 
The fy made in the following way: 
‘tk 
ounces, of c 
mall pieces, pe bo m (lowly with a pint and a half of 
water, ti!! only ten ounces Sof liquor — adding towards 
the erd of ae o¢tion an ounce aud a ha! of liquorice ro ot. 
Collect the liquor, by flrongly cue ng ye ingredients 
through a coarfe clot . ne hee olve therein fixteen ounces 
of fine fugar, or, of brown  fugar- 
aaa and train a a De fyrup in the ufual 
way: 
A variety of the diacodium is made me adding a dram of 
faffron to the cbove quantity of the fyr 
The diacodium is a medicine of es seouGderabl e value, 
eing a weak opiate, which separ to produce very little 
of the inconvenience which opium in fubftance occafions. It 
is particularly ufeful in var 1OUS aisle: of very young 
infants, aie its pleafant tafte is no fmall additional advan- 
tage. ults, its opiate properties are hardly pow- 
erful eneueh to fuperfede the opium in fubftance or in 
tin 
= 
As the fimple fyrup of poppies appears to poffefs all 
the virtues of the diacodium, it is now very generally ae 
ftituted to it, and the diacodium is now fe itted in 
pharmacopceias 
ACODUS, in Natural Hiftory, a name given by fome 
to the diadochos, a kind of beryl orfapphire, of which many 
fabulous things are afferte 
DIACOLOCYNTHUS, in Pharmacy, an eleGluary, in 
which colocynth is the principal ingredient. It is no 
difufed. 
DIACOMMATIC, in Mufc, has a been ufed 
to exprefs the frequent a pine a whole comma major 
are 
of ieute always to make perfect 
See Dr. Callcott’s Mu&cal 
G 
DI ONI ICON, Sacristy, a place pele to the 
ancient te. where the facred veitments, with the veffcls, 
relics, and other aa of the altar were ceined, and 
ae to our veitry. 
The word is Grech, formed sag Sranovew, LT ferve, IT mie 
nifler, becaufe i. was kept every thing belonging to di- 
vine fervice. Lt was alfo called aowassxoy, and in Latin fa- 
lutatorium ; bec oe was here that the bifhop received 
nd faluted ftrangers. Sometimes, t was Calle 
penTaTwpiov, OF pesTarupiov, menfa, ON —— of the tables ei 
therein, for difpofing the facred ornaments on; or rat 
fr nratov, a fort of inn, or houfe, for the lodging of 
{oldiers 
DIACONISSA, and Diaconate. See Deacon, and 
DEACONRY 
DIACOPE, Atanwrny from % 
in oe the fame with what 
tmeil 
w and xorrw, J cut off, 
is otherwile called 
Du OPE, in Surgery, denotes a deep cut or wounds or 
the a¢t of cutting off any part. 
D PENA, in a se cd yy a or placed 
t s Halys and 
lene, or Pellina 
DIACOUSTICS, — “rah -_ and axew, J set 2 
