"'...parenthetically I may say that I gave him such a dose, such a comfortable dose, the next day, when he was to take physic: I did not scruple to add two scruples of colocynth to his black draught, ha, ha, ha! Colocynth for ever, and the strong watery gripes. Are you not amused, my dear sir?'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 280
A Sea of Words: The violently cathartic pulp of a gourd, Citrullus colocynthus. (152)
"'...parenthetically I may say that I gave him such a dose, such a comfortable dose, the next day, when he was to take physic: I did not scruple to add two scruples of colocynth to his black draught, ha, ha, ha! Colocynth for ever, and the strong watery gripes. Are you not amused, my dear sir?'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 280
A Sea of Words: The violently cathartic pulp of a gourd, Citrullus colocynthus. (152)