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‖ diaˈgrydium Pharm.
Also 5 -gredie, 7 -gredium.
[L. diagrydium (Cælius Aurelianus ? 5th c.), according to Littré a corruption, through association with names of drugs in dia-, of Gr. δακρυδίον ‘a kind of scammony’, dim. of δάκρυ tear, drop. In F. diagrède.]
An old name for a preparation of scammony, used in pharmacy.
1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 173 Wee shulde have no nede to skamonye, Turbit, euforbe, correcte, diagredie. a1600Customs Duties (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. No. 25697), Digredum, the pounde. vis. viijd. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. xi. 127 Mingled with..powder of Diagridium. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋106 They hide Scammony under the name of diagredium. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece i. i. 66 Take..Diagridium and Tartar-Vitriolate a Dram. 1825Brande Man. Pharmacy 157 In some old Pharmacopœiæ..methods of correcting the acrimony of scammony are described, and to such preparations they gave the name of diagridia.
Hence diaˈgrydiate a., made with diagrydium. Also as n.: see quots.
1657Phys Dict, Diagridiates, medicines that have scammony or diagridium in their composition. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 99 With diagrydiate Purges. a1734Floyer, All cholerick humours ought to be evacuated by diagrydiates. 1755Johnson, Diagrydiates, strong purgatives made with diagrydium. |