elaterium

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 James Sands Elliott

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.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

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.

The Stark Munro Letters Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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.

The Stark Munro Letters 1894

I had compounded some pills containing a minute quantity of elaterium.

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

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.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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_).

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

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.

An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770

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.

An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770

The Squirting Cucumber ( "Ecballium elaterium") is a good example.

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