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Physician's Materia Medica on Scammony
SCAMMONYCOSC10
Resinous exudate from the root of CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONIA, Lin. Hydragogue cathartic, notoriously uncertain in its action, and almost invariably combined with other cathartics. A constituent of Extract Colocynth Compound.1
Resinous exudate from the root of CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONIA, Lin. Hydragogue cathartic, notoriously uncertain in its action, and almost invariably combined with other cathartics. A constituent of Extract Colocynth Compound.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.