Digging Foxes.—With respect to the digging of foxes which hounds run to ground, if the hole be straight and earth slight, follow it, and in following the hole, by keeping below its level, it cannot be lost.—Beckford.
Digest, v. To generate matter as a wound.
Digestion, s. The act of concocting food; the preparation of matter by a chemical heat; the act of disposing a wound to generate matter.
Digestives, s. Medicines which promote suppuration in ulcers, and cause them to discharge a white healthy matter.
| DIGESTIVE OINTMENT. | ||
| 1. | Hog’s lard and strained turpentine, of each | 4 oz. |
| Verdigris | 1 oz.—Mix. | |
| 2. | Hog’s lard and Venice turpentine, of each | 4 oz. |
| Sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), finely powdered | 1 oz.—Mix. | |
| 3. | Ointment of yellow rosin | 4 oz. |
| Oil of turpentine | 1 oz. | |
| Nitric oxide of mercury (red precipitate), finely powdered | 1 oz.—Mix. | |
| 4. | Ointment of nitrated quicksilver | 4 oz. |
| Oil of turpentine | 1 oz.—Mix. | |
| —White. | ||
Disease, s. Distemper, malady, sickness.
Dislocate, v. To put out of the proper place; to put out of joint; to displace a bone.
Dismount, v. To throw any one from on horseback; to alight from a horse.
Dispensatory, s. A book in which the composition of medicines is described and directed; a pharmacopœia.
Distemper, s. A disease, a malady.