(from dia by, and urine), medicines which provoke a discharge by urine.

Such is water drank plentifully; white wine drank in a morning; alkali salts of all kinds; sea-salt, sal-gemmae, nitre, borax, alum, tartar, sal ammoniac, whey, four milk, lemon-juice, &c. Aqueous liquors are generally diuretic especially if mixed with salt, and drank cold. Fermented liquors are the least diuretic of all; and the less so, as they are the fatter. Sharp thin four wines, rhenish, &c. as also acid spirits of vinegar, salt, sulphur, alum, vitriol, &c. asparagus, bitter almonds, smallage, eryngium, eupatorium, saffras, &c. are all diuretics.