Usage examples (24)

• 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...
• Various substances are often added to scammony while yet soft.
• Dyaceraseos (a mixture of cherry juice, honey, cinnamon, mastic and scammony) and Agrippa.
• Grosseteste uses the example, drawn from Avicenna, of the causal claim that scammony of itself causes the discharge of red bile.