Definitions
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- n. Alternative form of elaterin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Take of powdered jalap 5 gr., powdered rhubarb 5 gr., powdered scammony 5 gr., powdered elaterium 1/2 gr., bitartrate of potash 1/2 drm., sulphate of potash 1/2 drm., and syrup of ginger sufficient to make into pills; mix and divide into five pills.
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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!
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I asked him how on earth it got there; but I could only learn that the woman was fifty-six inches round the waist, and that he had treated her with elaterium.
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I had compounded some pills containing a minute quantity of elaterium.
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Amid the wayside rubbish grows one of the gourd family, _Ecbalium elaterium_, commonly called the squirting cucumber, whose fruit -- a rough and extremely bitter little cucumber -- is the size of a date.
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Gerard seems to have grown it, though from his describing it as a native of the sandy shores of the Mediterranean, he perhaps confused it with the Squirting Cucumber (_Momordica elaterium_).
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For three months in the beginning of this year she had been under the care of Dr. Darwin, who at different times had given her blue vitriol, elaterium, and calomel; decoction of pareira brava, and guiacum wood, with tincture of cantharides; oxymel of squills, decoction of parsley roots, &c.
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He was likewise purged by a bolus of argent.viv. jallap, Digit. elaterium and calomel, which was repeated on the fourth day, to the third time.
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The Squirting Cucumber ( "Ecballium elaterium") is a good example.
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(?); sprinkle a little dried elaterium, and a little dried pomegranate rind in like manner.
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