Meanings of jalap in inglés

Some mothers are in the habit of giving their children jalap gingerbread.

These are combined, however, with a purgative of greater activity, most probably jalap.

It's the jalap-isn'tthat what it's called?-wewant to hear about.

If your cask be less than a pipe, proportion your yest and jalap accordingly.

One dram of jalap at night followed by a big dose of salts before breakfast.

And tell him not to spare the jalap.

I gave her three good doses of jalap.

The active principle in aloes is aloin; of jalap, jalapin; of white hellebore, veratria; and of colchicum, colchicin.

On first coming he had found more people being killed by calomel and jalap than by the plague.

The too common and reprehensible practice of a parent administering frequent aperients, especially calomel and jalap, to her child.

The "pills" which Dr. Livingstone often referred to were composed of resin of jalap, calomel, rhubarb, and quinine.

The chief vegetable purgatives are aloes, colocynth, gamboge, jalap, scammony, seeds of castor-oil plant, croton-oil, elaterium, the hellebores, and colchicum.

I drink his health in a dose of the cheerful beverage known as jalap, and thresh the sheets with my hot hands.

However faint became the memory of youthful joys in after years, the flavour of Miss Pew's jalap and senna was never obliterated.

I took ten grains of calomel and a scruple of jalap, and drank during the day large draughts of tea, weak and warm.

A strong dose of calomel and jalap, which we poured down the sick lad's throat, contributed materially to the success of these incantations.