colocynth

• He must have had a stomach like a dustbin liner because at least a third of the rum which I'd given him vas a mixture of jalap and colocynth, the most drastic purgatives known to the old nineteenth-century doctors—and they were experts in drastic purgatives, if nothing else. —  The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
• Three or four tin canisters containing some calomel, Dover's powder, colocynth, and, above all, a supply of quinine, can be distributed in different packages, and then, if a mishap occurs similar to that which Livingstone relates, the disaster is not beyond remedy 20th January, 1867. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
• Some colocynth is gathered here and there, and dried in the hollows of the rocks It is not legal, or rather not allowed in Egypt, to be in possession of arms without a permit; but throughout the whole of the upper country, it is found difficult to enforce such a regulation. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852
• She then ate one-half a colocynth, which made her terribly sick, causing a bloody diarrhea. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• I think I will send out a box of colocynth, and a bit of nice tender veal, to put him in good humour again. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

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