Meaning of "scammony" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCAMMONY

Old English, via Latin from Greek skammōnia, of obscure origin.

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCAMMONY

scammony  [ˈskæmənɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCAMMONY

Scammony is a noun.

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WHAT DOES SCAMMONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Convolvulus scammonia

Convolvulus scammonia, scammony, is a bindweed native to the countries of the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin; it grows in bushy waste places, from Syria in the south to the Crimea in the north, its range extending westward to the Greek islands, but not to northern Africa or Italy. It is a twining perennial, bearing flowers like those of Convolvulus arvensis, and having irregularly arrow-shaped leaves and a thick fleshy root. The dried juice, virgin scammony, obtained by incision of the living root, has been used in medicine as scammonium, but the variable quality of the drug has led to the employment of scammoniae resina, which is obtained from the dried root by digestion with alcohol. The active principle is the glucoside scammonin or jalapin, C34H114O6. The dose of scammonium is 5 to 10 grains, of scammony resin 3 to 8 grains. Like certain other resins, scammony is inert until it has passed from the stomach into the duodenum, where it meets the bile, a chemical reaction occurring between it and the taurocholate and glycocholate of sodium, whereby it is converted into a powerful purgative.

Definition of scammony in the English dictionary

The first definition of scammony in the dictionary is a twining Asian convolvulus plant, Convolvulus scammonia, having arrow-shaped leaves, white or purple flowers, and tuberous roots. Other definition of scammony is a resinous juice obtained from the roots of this plant and having purgative properties. Scammony is also any of various similar medicinal resins or the plants that yield them.

TRANSLATION OF SCAMMONY

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCAMMONY»

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The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

192) refers the scammony of Dioscorides to the Convolvulus farinosus. It deserves notice, that the term scammonia is applied by pharmacologists to purgative resinous substances obtained from Canvolvulzwew and Asclepiadaceaz. At present ...

Jonathan Pereira, Joseph Carson, 1846

A Complete History of Drugs. Written in French by Monsieur ...

of the Fire, drawn by Expreflion from the Root os the said Plant, that grows plentifully in several Parts of the Lcvant, but especially about Aleppo and St. John ffldc'rl, from whence the best Scammony is brought us, which, when right, ought to be ...

Pierre Pomet, Nicolas Lémery, Joseph Pitton : de Tournefort, 1748

Pharmaceutical Journal;: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and ...

THE EXAMINATION AND VALUATION OF SCAMMONY RESIN. BI W. B. COWIE, PH.O., P.0.8. The criticism on the B.P. and U.S.P. tests in my paper on " The Examination and Valuation of Jalap Resins " applies with equal force to those tests ...

‎1908

The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions

Authors have stated that chalk, starch,_ gurm' common resin, guaiacum, jalap resin, decoction oi jalap, and of the leaves and twigs or villous stems of the scammony plant, senna, manna, gamboge, and ivory black, are used for the purpose of ...

‎1875

The Pharmaceutical Journal ...: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy ...

This fact, combined with the probable difiiculty of obtaining regular supplies, are to some extent drawbacks to the introduction of Scammony root into the Pharmacopoeia, although, on the whole, we regard its admission as a useful one .

‎1864

The Lancet

Sulphuric ether should separate not less than seventy-eight per cent, of extract, consisting principally of resin; paper wetted with an etherial or alcoholic solution of scammony should undergo no change of colour when exposed to the orange ...

‎1853

Yearbook of Pharmacy 1875

not be used, as it is dearer than scammony resin. Common resin and gmuacum are readily found if present. That there are several qualities of scammony or scammonium of the B. P. in the market there can be no question. Aleppo scammony is ...

Yearbook of Pharmacy 1875, 1875

The Pharmaceutical journal ...: A weekly record of pharmacy ...

If hydrochloric acid be added to water through which either pulvis scammonii or pulvis scammonii compositus has been diffused, no effervescence is observed, provided these powders have been prepared with pure scammony. Much of the ...

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1845

A Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-foot

511 Scammony, Guib.).—It usually occurs in amorphous pieces; but a careful examination of some large lumps has led me to believe that they formed portions of a mass, which, when in the soft state, had a rounded form. The whitish-gray ...

Lewis Albert Sayre, 1854

Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at ...

Engelhardt and Schmidt, and on the subject of " Scammony Resin." By request Mr. Dohme read the paper. SCAMMONY AND RESIN SCAMMONY. BY H. ENGELHARDT AND M. R. SCHMIDT. Considerable work has recently been done on the ...

American Pharmaceutical Association, 1910

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCAMMONY»

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Churchill Downs entries, picks for Sunday

SCAMMONY is a consistent runner from the barn of Amoss. She looks like the favorite and will be tough to beat. TRAWEE comes off of a win at Indiana Downs ... «The Courier-Journal, May 15»

Churchill Downs entries, picks for Thursday

SCAMMONY needed her last race after a three month layoff. She drops in for a tag today and should be ready for a winning effort. TWITTERVERSE has the ... «The Courier-Journal, Apr 15»

'The Crusades'

The cruelty of these impious men goes even to the length that, thinking the wretches have eaten gold or silver, they either put scammony in their drink and force ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 10»