jalap

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The claims are an echo from 1918, when an ad for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets promised that the pills — made from “May-apple, leaves of aloe, jalap” — offered protection “against the deadly attack of the Spanish Influenza.”

From New York Times

Where, however, it is inconvenient to gratify the desire, one or two doses of jalap will often entirely remove it; and fowls often lay in three weeks afterward.

From Project Gutenberg

The bowels were kept open by jalap and the potassium bitartrate.

From Project Gutenberg

A good cathartic for ordinary cases is a mixture of jalap and potassium bitartrate, the pulvis jalap� compositus, consisting of one part of jalap and two of cream of tartar.

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In my own practice the sulphate of magnesia, in large and repeated doses, has given the best results; elaterium, a powder of jalap, squill, and digitalis, and, in fact, any medicine which will give frequent and copious stools, are sure to afford marked relief to the more urgent symptoms, and in many cases will alone effect a cure.

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