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DIAHEXAPLA

Volume 4 · 38 words · 1778 Edition

or DIAHEXAPTE, among farriers, a compound medicine, so called from its containing six ingredients, viz. birthwort and gentian roots, juniper-berries, bay-berries, myrrh, and ivory shavings. It is commended for colds, consumptions, purpures, and many other disorders in horses.