jalap

Brougham needs a dose of jalap instead of pap, for he cannot even spell the 'greatest happiness principle' properly.

I told him about the situation in Fisher Hill and how finances was low on account of the local mixture of politics and jalap.

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

This is probably the case with such as Castor-oil, Scammony, and Jalap, which are simply cathartic in their action.

The resins of Jalap, Scammony, and other such substances, are affirmed to pass out along with them.