[504] See Gentleman’s Magazine for 1778, p. 472.
[505] This form of Greek designation, consisting of the name of the principal ingredients in a formula, preceded by the initial DIA, was long retained in pharmaceutical nomenclature. The London Pharmacopœia of 1677, for instance, has upwards of twenty medicines or formulæ commencing with DIA, as the Pulvis Diasennæ, the Electuarium Diacinnamomum, the syrup named Diacodium, etc. Almost the only remnant of this type of nomenclature that is retained in modern medical language, is to be found in the well-known term Diachylon plaster. The inventor of the Diachylon plaster—Menecrates—lived about the time of Tiberius, and, according to the inscription still preserved at Rome upon his marble tombstone (See Gruter’s Inscriptiones, p. 581), he was the author of not less than 155 medical works, few or no fragments of which remain. His plaster has greatly outlived the productions of his pen. The medical poet, Damocrates, who wrote several pharmaceutical works, put Menecrates' directions for preparing the Diachylon into Greek Iambic verse.—See Galen de Compos. Medicam. sec. Genera, vol. xiii. p. 996.
[506] Opera, lib. i. cap. 77, p. 43. See, also, on its properties, Galen’s Works, by Kühn, vol. xii. p. 127; Adams’ Paulus Ægineta, vol. iii. p. 349.
[507] Tetrabiblos, Sermo iii. cap. cix. p. 429.
[508] De Methodo Medendi, lib. vi. cap. v. p. 310.
[509] Dr. Adams’ Paulus Ægineta, vol. i. p. 417.
[510] Kühn’s Edition, vol. xii. p. 774.
[511] Ibid. p. 746.
[512] Ibid. p. 257.
[513] Ibid. vol. vi. p. 876.