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Enters into Decoct, Digitalis. D. Infus. Digitalis. L. E. Tinct. Di-gitalis. L. E. D.

Dill. See Anbthi Semina.

Dinner Pills. See Pillule Aloes et Kinakina. P.

DiosjiiE CrenatjE Folia. D. Buclm or Bechu leaves. Lately in-traduced from the Cape, as an astringent, sudorific, and diuretic,which acts somewhat like uva ursi on the urinary organs, and isused in gleet, gonorrhoea, cutaneous eruptions; and also in dys-pepsia.Incompatible with infusion of galls and sulphate of iron.

Dittander. Pepperwort, Lepidittm latifolium. A native plant, veryacrid, and stimulating. Used in acute rheumatism, and to hastenparturition.

Dittany. See Dictamnus.

Diuretic Mass, in Farriery. Take ft>j of yellow resin powdered, andwith a sufficient quantity of soft soap form a mass. Dose from anounce to an ounce and a half. (Piiarji. Veterinary College.)

Diuretics. Medicines which promote urine. See Conspectus of Pre-scriptions.

Dixon's Antibilious Pills. A nostrum composed of aloe's, scam-niony, rhubarb, and tartarized antimony, and, of course, a powerfulcathartic, and deobstruant.

Dodder. See Cuscuta.

Dog Bane. The Apocynum androsoamifolium. A powerful emetic, inthe dose of gr. xxx of the powdered root. (Bigelow.)

Dogwood. The Cornvs Jlorida, a small American tree, whose bark isused as a substitute for Peruvian bark, in the same doses. It con-tains CORNINE.

Dolichi Pubes. L. E. D. Cowhage, or Cow-itch, Dolickos pritriens,the stiff hairs of the pods, being used as a vermifuge, which act me-chanically in destroying ascaride::, and other intestinal worms. It isgiven in syrup, made of the consistence of honey, in the dose of gr. vto gr. x in the morning, and followed after the third day by a smartpurgative. It occasions itching about the anus. The cowhage occa-sions violent itching when applied to the skin, which is to be allayedby oil, or a solution of sulphate of iron.

Doronicum. P. Leopard's Bane. The root is aromatic, hot, and sti-mulant, and used instead of arnica.

Dover's Powder. See Pulvis Ipecacuanha Compositus.

Dracine. This is procured by mixing cold water with a concentratedalcoholic solution of dragon's biood, when the dracine is precipi-tated.

Dracontium. Skunk Cabbage, Dracontium fwlidum. The root of