Mixed with equal parts of Colocynth it is applied to carbuncles.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
I applied my usual remedies for it, which consisted of Colocynth and quinine; but experience has shown me that an excessive use of the same cathartic weakens its effect, and that it would be well for travellers to take with them different medicines to cause proper action in the liver, such as Colocynth, calomel, resin of jalap, Epsom salts; and that no quinine should be taken until such medicines shall have prepared the system for its reception.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
If he could only have seen Daphne press her handkerchief first to her eyes, from which tears were streaming, and then to her lips, that he might not hear her sobs, if he could have perceived how Thyone's wrinkled old face contracted as if she were swallowing a Colocynth apple, while at the same time she patted his strong shoulder briskly, exclaiming with forced cheerfulness: "Go on, my boy!
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers