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DIASENNA

Volume 2 · 56 words · 1771 Edition

in pharmacy, the name of a medicine in which fenna is the principal ingredient.

The other ingredients are sugar-candy, cinnamon, lapis lazuli, silk, cloves, galanga minor, black pepper, nardus indica, seed of basilicum, flowers of cloves, cardamoms, saffron, ginger, zedoary, &c.

This electuary is taken against melancholy and spleen, and against diseases arising from an atrabilis.