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What is a scammony?

What is a scammony? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Convolvulus scammonia, a twining perennial bindweed native to the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin, whose juice has been used in medicine as scammonium.
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When in a state of purity, it does not form an emulsion with milk, like scammony resin, but runs into a solid mass.
The jalap resin of commerce is generally adulterated with scammony, gum, guaiacum or resin.
When he says that hops purges choler, he doesn't mean in the same way as scammony does.
We infer that the repeated connection involves an essential relation between two things: e.g., it is not accidental that the purging of bile follows the ingestion of scammony, for regularities cannot be due to chance.
I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge.
The lumbrici are destroyed by repeated doses of calomel and scammony.

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