Some rely entirely on purgatives: others bleeding and physicking; others on emetics; some put tar upon the nose, others a pitch plaster, and some cauterize the nasals; some inject vinegar into the dose, others hellebore, and others a solution of camphor; some cut off the tail, others the ears; some give tobacco and olive oil, others the golden sulphuret of antimony; the keeper gives the curpeth’s mineral: the more scientific of these gentry will knock down the disease, and the dog too with arsenic. The gentleman will give compound tincture of benzoin, the farmer common salt; the medical man sulphuric ether, or emetics and sulphur, or emetics and jalap, or emetics and scammony.—Youatt—Daniel—Darwin.
Ditch, s. A trench cut in the ground usually between two fields; any long narrow receptacle of water.
Diver, s. A bird; one that sinks voluntarily under water; one that goes under water to search for any thing.
Diuretics, s. Medicines that excite and increase urinal discharge.
DIURETIC POWDER.
Powdered rosin and nitre, of each, 4 drs.
Mix for one dose, and let it be repeated daily, or twice a day, if necessary, until a sufficient effect is produced.
DIURETIC BALL.
Hard soap and common turpentine, of each, 4 drachms.
Powdered caraway seeds enough to form the ball. Mix for one dose.