scammony

• He made use of the narcotics mandragora, henbane, and probably also poppy-juice, and as a laxative used greatly a vegetable substance called "mercury," beet and cabbage, and cathartics such as scammony and elaterium! —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
• But now let us talk of scammony,' he added, vaulting on the counter, and seating himself by the side of Darkush; 'one might get more by arranging this visit to your mountains than by enjoying an appalto of all its gums, friend Darkush; but if it cannot be, it cannot be It cannot be Let us talk, then, of scammony. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
• This substance combined with aloes and sometimes with scammony, constitutes the basis of the numerous varieties of large, cathartic pills found in the market CULVER'S-ROOT. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• The duty received for scammony, in 1842, was Ł607. —  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.
• Strong Purgative Take of powdered aloes, scammony, and gamboge, each fifteen grains mix, and add sufficient Venice turpentine to make into a mass, then divide into twelve pills Dose_, one or two occasionally 550. —  Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby

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