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!. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Various substances are often added to scammony while yet soft. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
Dyaceraseos (a mixture of cherry juice, honey, cinnamon, mastic and scammony) and Agrippa. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Grosseteste uses the example, drawn from Avicenna, of the causal claim that scammony of itself causes the discharge of red bile. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Grosseteste] Reference
Take Socotrine aloes, gamboge, and castile soap, of each one dram; ipecac and scammony, of each thirty grains; oil of anise, thirty drops. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Taken into the inferior parts are clysters strong or weak, suppositories of Castilian soap, honey boiled to a consistence; or stronger of scammony, hellebore, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Each fluid ounce contains: sulp. magnesia one drachm, senna two drachms, scammony six grains, liquorice one drachm, ginger three grains, coriander, five grains, with flavoring ingredients. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
If there be borborygmi, with bilious stools, purge moderately with scammony; but with regard to the treatment otherwise, administer as few drinks and draughts as until there be some amendment, and the disease is past the fourteenth day. From Wordnik.com. [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference
This plant furnishes the scammony of the druggists. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
'You don't know any one who wants a parcel of scammony?' said the man. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
Take of scammony and jalap, each 24 grains; grey powder and powdered antimony, each 18 grains. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
How is it, again, that it attains extreme bitterness, and makes the mouth rough when it is found in wormwood and in scammony?. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
“Well said, scammony and gamboge,” retorted the purser; and they all fell again to laughing at the expence of their unfortunate brother officer. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund] Reference
Queen: things might have happened that would have lengthened all our shadows; but never mind, what cannot be, cannot be: let us talk, then, of scammony. '. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
'I never could make out what you were, friend Darkush; but as for scammony, I could throw a good deal of business in your way at this moment, to say nothing of galls and tragacanth.'. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
It is employed with great success by Dr. Harris, of New Jersey, in these and in other affections as a substitute for jalap and rhubarb; Dr.B. S. Barton says that an extract from one of our native species is little inferior to scammony. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
(The Bindweed Tribe.) An acrid, milky juice is found in their roots, which is strongly purgative, this quality depending upon a peculiar resin, which is the active principle of the jalap, the scammony, etc., plants belonging to this order. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
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. '. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
Obs. and Inqui. ") thus describes the mode of procuring scammony. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge.”. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
'Let us talk, then, of scammony. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
The duty received for scammony, in 1842, was. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
Powdered scammony. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Calomel, aloes, jalap, scammony, and gamboge will generally produce sickness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
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