Damocrates, 91; Mithridatum, ii, 38; ii, 39 Dante, connection with pharmacy, 279 Daphnine, discovery of, ii, 245 Darsini, 219 David, King, electuary, 220 Davy, Sir Humphry, portrait, 284 Decocta, invention, ii, 285 Decoctum Aloes Co., origin, ii, 176 “Degrees” in diagnosis, 179 Deliquium, ii, 286 Demons as cause of disease, 158 Danaus’s Collyrium, 215 Dephlogisticated air, 269 Derosne’s salt, ii, 244 Despumation, ii, 286 Devil’s claw, 57 D’Husson’s Eau Medicinale, ii, 182; price, ii, 184; composition, ii, 184 Dia, meaning, ii, 286 Diabetes, papyrus remedy, 43 Diachylon plaster, invention, 91; ii, 127; first formula, ii, 128; etymology, ii, 128; ii, 286, 406 Diacodium, inventor, 90; etymology, ii, 287 Dia-kodion, origin, ii, 116 Diapente, etymology, ii, 287 Diaphoretic vitriol, 374 Diarrhœa, old remedies, 43, 294 Diascordium, 223; formula, ii, 41; ii, 287 Diatesseron, 310 Diet, Hippocrates on, 87; Aetius on, 215; Alexander of Trailles on, 217 Digby, Sir Kenelm, toothache cure, 168; biography, 193; portrait, 194; tincture of gold, 395 Digitalis, origin of name, ii, 109; medical history, ii, 109; book on, ii, 110 Dill, Biblical reference, 71; used by Saxons, 126 Dioscorides, 90; biography, 206; writings, 208, 209 Dippel’s oil, ii, 25; uses, ii, 26 Diseases, transferring, 170 Distillation, antiquity of, 327 Distilled waters, 328 Distillers’ Company, 148 Dittany, uses, 26 Dover, T., biography, ii, 129; “Ancient Physician’s Legacy,” ii, 131 Dover’s powder, first official, ii, 67; ii, 115; origin, ii, 129; original formula, ii, 132 Drachm sign, origin, ii, 300 Draco Mitigatus, 419, 420 Dragon’s blood, origin, 31 Dragon tree, figure of, 32 Dragons, Biblical references, 33 Drink cures, old, 130; ii, 12 Dropaxes, ii, 282; ii, 287 Dropsy cured by touch, 299 Drug, etymology, ii, 287 Drug-inspection, 138; ii, 17 Drug-trade, development, 138 Drugs as charms, ii, 75; in Ebers’s papyrus, 40; in Bible, 53; mentioned by Hippocrates, 77 Dschondisabour, medical college at, 101, 103 Dublin Pharmacopœias, ii, 69 Dudaim, identity of, 20, 49 Duke of Portland’s powder, 215, 309; ii, 125 Dumas, French chemist, 286; theory of substitution, ii, 259 Dumeril, French physician, 276 Duncan and Flockhart’s chloroform, ii, 253 Dutch Drops, origin of, ii, 176 Dysentery, ipecacuanha as remedy, ii, 114 E Ear-ache, early remedies, 45, 130 Earl of Warwick’s powder, 308, 383, 420 Earthworms as remedy, ii, 11, ii, 12 Eaton’s styptick, ii, 163