Definitions

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  • noun medicine, archaic A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants, later made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerine mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek διάχυλος (diakhulos, "juicy").

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Examples

  • I put over the wounds a great plaster of diachylum, wherewith I had mixed oil of roses, and vinegar, to avoid inflammation.

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • I put over the wounds a great plaster of diachylum, wherewith I had mixed oil of roses, and vinegar, to avoid inflammation.

    The Journey to Hesdin. 1553 1909

  • Soothly, I discovered that diachylum emplasture was tenpence the pound, and tamarinds fivepence; and grew well weary of ringing the changes upon rosin and frankincense, litharge and turpentine, oil of violets and flowers of beans, _Gratia

    In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • We shaved the surrounding parts; and after we had washed and stanched the wound, we melted some tallow and spread it over some lint, which we adapted to the swelling with strips of diachylum.

    Over Strand and Field Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • Over the chimney-piece trailed some diachylum and strips for binding.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • They rubbed his hump with camphorated grease, placed there for twenty minutes a mustard poultice, then covered it over with diachylum, and, in order to make sure of his coming back, gave him his breakfast.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • There were two of my men wounded as well as myself, but not severely, which was fortunate, as we had no surgeon on board, and only about half a yard of diachylum plaster in the vessel.

    Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820

  • There were two of my men wounded as well as myself, but not severely, which was fortunate, as we had no surgeon on board, and only about half a yard of a diachylum plaster in the vessel.

    Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820

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