
Anna Burnside
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With Bruce Howard, 1996
Graham Slater Collection
Resina Jalapium was a resin extracted from the roots of Jalapium or Ipomoea purga and as the name suggests was used as a method to purge the body of excess humours or waters. Apothecaries would refine it into a white powder which could be made into pills used to treat dropsy or oedema.