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单词 scammony
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scammonyn.

Brit. /ˈskaməni/, U.S. /ˈskæməni/
Forms: Old English scamonie, ( scamonam, Lat. accusative Middle English scamoi(e)ne, Middle English scamoly, Middle English–1500s scamonie, scammonye, Middle English–1600s scamony, Middle English skamonye, 1600s skamony, 1500s–1600s scammonie, 1500s– scammony.
Etymology: < Latin scammōnia, scammōnium (also scammōnea), < Greek σκαμμωνία, -ώνιον. Compare Old French scamonee, escamonie (modern French scammonée), Provençal escamonea, Spanish escamonea, Portuguese escamonea, Italian scammonea.
1.
a. A gum resin obtained from the tuberus roots of Convolvulus Scammonia (see sense 2) used in medicine as a strong purgative; also, the dried tuberous root from which the drug is prepared.Also with qualifying word indicating the place of export, esp. in Aleppo scammony, Smyrna scammony.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived
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lign-aloesc1374
hiera picra1379
rhubarbc1390
aloea1398
cassia fistulaa1398
coloquintidaa1398
senec1400
turpethc1400
coloquintc1420
diagrydium1436
lignum aloes1525
rhabarbarum1533
xylaloes1540
manna1541
scilla1548
hyera?1550
emblic1555
diasenna1562
colocynth1565
tragonce1575
pinyon1577
mechoacan1587
lignum aquilae1600
gamboge1615
dragon-root1621
helleborism1621
diaprune1625
alhandal1630
makinboy1652
luskard1653
diagrydiate1657
physic nut1657
aloetic1661
scammoniate1665
jalap1675
aloedary1683
coloquinto1683
Briançon manna1688
liquorice powder1712
coloquintid1732
castor oil1746
senna-tea1752
higry pigry1773
Turkey rhubarb1789
argel1803
hickery-pickery1816
cathartin1823
aloin1828
croton oil1829
jalapin1832
syrmaea1833
bryonin1836
gambogic acid1837
Podophyllum1844
podophyllin1851
geropiga1852
hicra picra1857
Montpellier turpeth1860
picra1860
tallicoona oil1866
scammonin1868
pharbitisin1873
cascara sagrada1879
senna-draught1879
tambor-oil1890
syrup of figs1897
pharbitin1899
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 272 Nim scamoniam þæt penig gewege & gegnid smæle.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 272 Wyrtdrenc scamonian geceos þus.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8853 Appas..dude þer-to atter þa scamoiene [c1300 Otho scamoine] hatte.
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 173 That wee shulde have no nede to skamonye, Turbit, euforbe [etc.].
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 586 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 76 I haue gyven hyr a drynke made..Wyth scamoly.
1526 Grete Herball cccccv. sig. Cciijv/2 Scamony is often contrefayted with mylke of ye herbe of catapucie.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §19 You may make it as strong a Purging Medicine, as Scammony.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 470 Scammony acts upon the system like jalap, but is somewhat more irritating.
figurative.1678 B. R. Let. Popish Friends 4 What Protestant Scammony is strong enough to make a thorough-pac'd Catholick Disgorge Infallibility?
b. (See quot. 1849.)
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1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §956 A spurious kind of Scammony has been prepared from the root of Convolvulus (Calystegia) sepium; and several plants belonging to the order Asclepiadaceæ yield a purgative exudation which has been used under the names of Montpellier and Bourbon Scammony.
2. The plant Convolvulus Scammonia, native in Syria and Asia Minor, having a fleshy root which furnishes the scammony (sense 1) of commerce.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > other non-British medicinal plants or plant parts
scammony1567
teamster's tea1728
buchu1731
goatweed1756
Iceland moss1785
argel1803
opopanax-wort1811
papoose root1811
ginseng1818
mad-dog weed1818
chirayta1829
Corsican moss1849
goatweed1864
devil's claw1876
sneezeweed1877
lingzhi1904
mountain pink1936
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 61 Scammony..hath a leafe like Iuie.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 716 Of Scammonie, or purging Bindweed.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 191 This genus contains several remarkable plants; as Scammony..and Jalap.
3. attributive.
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1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 282 Compound Scammony Powder…Scammony Mixture.
1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 283 Scammony resin also forms an important ingredient in extractum colocynthidis compositum.
1887 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) ii. iii. 627 This Scammony as also Scammony Root, and Scammony Resin, are official in the British Pharmacopœia.
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