Cathartics jalap

Ext. Colocynthidls Comp, (colocynth compound) A powerful cathartic. The USD called this a favourite preparation with many practitioners and combined with calomel, extract of jalap, and gamboges, a safe cathartic. ... 

Pilulffi Cathartics Comp, (compound cathartic pills) Composed of colocynth, jalap, mild chloride of mercury, and gamboge. The name fairly well describes its use. Prescribe especially in cases of bilious fever. 

Pharmacy, recommended a compound cathartic pill made up of 1 grain of calomel augmented by some plant cathartics commonly used by eclectics IV2 grain of colocynth, 1 grain of jalap or podophyllum (whichever was available), and one-fifth grain of gamboge. Parrish declared. 

Jalap root Exagonium purga Dramatic purgative cathartic... 

Ipomoea purga (jalap) is a drastic cathartic with irritant action, which has been superseded by less toxic laxatives. 

Compound Cathartic Pills. Take i ounce compound extract of colocynth, 3 drachms ext t of jalap, 3 drachms mild chloride of mercury, and 2 scruples gamboge mux with water to make 180 pills. 

Butternut Pills. Take i drachm extract of butternut, 1 scruple powdered jalap and 10 pains so. Moko into 15 pills. Dose, 3 puls, and, if these do not operate, administer 2 more. Butternut is highly recommended as a cathartic in fevers, dysentery, c. 

Cathartics of the mild kind, as fenna, jalap, neutral falts, manna. They increafe the fecretions of bile, pancreatic juice, and inteftinal mucus. 

Jalap is an irritant and cathartic that produces profuse and liquid stools, often accompanied by griping (BPC 1911 Felter and Lloyd 1898 Pereda-Miranda et al. 2006 Wood and LaWall 1918). Large doses may produce violent hypercatharsis (Felter and Lloyd 1898 Wood and LaWall 1918), which has led to fatalities in some cases (Felter and Lloyd 1898). 

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