Jalap

I truly like the Jalap/veracruz area as you will note in previous posts.

Xalapa (Jalapa) info 2003

Here grow an abundance of broad-leaved plants, and for thread there is the fibre of the _maguey_, or century plant; while the thorns of the cactus are the needles used among the natives; so that all the materials were at ready hand for making their garments, as soon as our first parents had their eyes opened -- by taking Jalap, I suppose -- and so discovering that they were naked.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

Jalap, ipecac, and rhubarb were the botanical favorites, while bitter purging salts (Epsom salts) and Glauber's purging salts were the chemical choices for purging.

Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen

_Jalap_ is a flowering plant which grows only at high altitudes in Mexico, and its root produces an extract with a powerful purgative effect.

History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills Robert B. Shaw

I suppose you have been interviewing old Jalap about your liver, eh, you hypochondriacal young donkey!

Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral

-- _Albohol_, Sp.; _Turpeth Root_, _Indian Jalap_, Eng. Uses.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

"Well, old Jalap and Jerusalem oakseed," says I, "I'm no regular practitioner, but I'll show you my authority, anyway."

Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

Pills, and Ressin of Jalap "for the toothache; a Diaphoretic Bolus for an" Extream Cold; "Spirits of Castor and Oil of Amber for" Histericall

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

"Just you wait till we're out in the field, Jalap, and I'll serve you out for this."

Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870

Jalap; japanned ware of all kinds not otherwise provided for; jet, and manufactures of jet, or imitations thereof; jewelry, or imitations thereof; juniper berries.

The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes: Confederate States of America 1864