COLOCYNTH
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 9
(Gr. «^X«v, the colon, and xniu, I move.) This term is applied in the Materia Medica to the pith of bitter apple, the fruit of the Cucumis colocynth is, which is violently purgative. It is imported dried, and generally peeled, from Turkey: it is rarely used alone; but one of^the most valuable purgatives is the compound extract of colocyrith, which is a combination of this drug with aloes, scammony, cardamum seeds, and soap. [s. 260]
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