jalap

• In the “Rules of civility” he had taken so to heart, the boy had been taught that “In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physician if you be not Knowing therein,” but plantation life trained every man to a certain extent in physicking, and the yearly invoice sent to London always ordered such drugs as were needed,—ipecacuanha, jalap, Venice treacle, rhubarb, diacordium, etc., as well as medicines for horses and dogs. —  The True George Washington [10th Ed.]
• The “pills” which Dr. Livingstone often referred to were composed of resin of jalap, calomel, rhubarb, and quinine. —  The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
• He'd christen me jalap or rhubarb, or something of that sort Ah, well, we shall see, and--who's that coming up to the door Joe looked out from the window, and came back directly The Colonel, dad. —  Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea
• Little Tom is in bed, having broken his fast upon jalap, administered to counteract the baneful effects of the sweets consumed yesterday--the youth being full as a sack of sand; and, we think, could an anatomist have given a section of the different strata of food that body contained, in the spirit of a geologist, he would have presented a remarkable series of deposits. —  Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season.
• The active principle in aloes is aloin; of jalap, jalapin; of white hellebore, veratria; and of colchicum, colchicin. —  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

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