February 23, 2026
IPECACUANHA
The root of the Psychotria emetica is used generally as an expectorant, but in India in cases of dysentery: its sexsyllabic nomenclature has been thus immortalised by George Canning:—
“Coughing in a shady grove,
Sat my Juliana;
Lozenges I gave my love:
Ipecacuanha!”