Diascordium dark and thin, without a due proportion of the gums. [It was a compound electuary containing no less than 19 ingredients. It was considered useful in the treatment of epilepsy, megrim, want of appetite, wind, colic, and malignant fevers.]
London Laudanum, a dry, hard substance, without smell or colour.
Mr. S——’s Shop.
Diascordium too thin (let down with honey, I suppose).
Venice treacle, a thin body, much candied. [This, like Diascordium and Mithridate, was one of the complex electuary medicines of the Middle Ages. Its proportions were almost word for word those recommended by Galen in his treatise, Περὶ ᾽Αντιδότων. It was also known as the treacle of Andromachus.]
London Laudanum, a dry, hard substance, without smell or colour.
Mr. G——’s Shop.
Diascordium thin bodied, much candied.
Venice treacle thin, candied, without its proportions.
London Laudanum, a dry, hard substance.