diascordium

English

Etymology

Medical Latin, from Ancient Greek διὰ σκορδίων (dià skordíōn), from σκόρδιον (skórdion, “scordium”).

Noun

diascordium (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, pharmacology) A medicine made from dried herbs, especially Teucrium scordium.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , II.5.1.vi:

     Laudanum Paracelsi is prescribed in two or three grains, with a dram of diascordium, which Oswald. Crollius commends.