Translation for "jalap" to spanish

Jalap

• jalapa

Translation examples

jalapa

I've dosed him ten grains of jalap but he seems little improved.
Le di diez granos de jalapa, pero me parece que no ha mejorado mucho.

Henry himself suspected that the jalap cure was bogus, and he refused to let anyone in his household take it.
Henry sospechaba que la cura de la jalapa era posiblemente inadecuada y no permitió a nadie de su familia tomarla.

There was no money to be made, however, in restorative liquids and rest, while there was a great deal of money to be made in jalap.
No obstante, no era posible ganar dinero con las bebidas reconstituyentes y el descanso, mientras que la jalapa proporcionaba cuantiosas ganancias.

His lungs were ruined, Alma knew, from years of working with the powdered jalap that had made him rich.
Alma sabía que tenía los pulmones destrozados, tras años de trabajar con la jalapa en polvo que le hizo rico.

Local physicians had decided that the only possible cure was to violently purge their patients even further, through repeated bouts of vomiting and diarrhea, and the best-known purgative in the world was a plant called jalap, which Henry was already importing in bales from Mexico.
Los médicos del lugar opinaban que la única cura posible era la violencia de purgar aún más a sus pacientes mediante vómitos y diarreas, y el mejor purgante del mundo era una planta llamada jalapa, que Henry ya importaba en fardos de México.

Between his babble and having to totter into the bushes every half-mile while the troop tactfully looked the other way, I was in poor trim by the time we reached Nuggur Ford, where they slung me a hammock in a makeshift hospital basha, and a native medical orderly filled me with jalap.
Entre su cháchara incesante y tener que meterme entre los arbustos cada kilómetro mientras el pelotón con mucho tacto miraba a otro lado, yo estaba bastante hecho polvo cuando alcanzamos el Nuggur Ford. Allí me tendieron en una camilla en un hospital de Campaña basha, y un enfermero nativo me llenó de jalapa.