aperient

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An old-fashioned piece of advice in distemper, and one always given, was that at the outset of the disease a dose of castor oil, or some other aperient, should be administered.

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In the first, or inflammatory stages, bleeding and aperients are clearly called for.

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I have generally given it in lemonade in such amounts as to secure a gentle aperient and diuretic effect.

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Sapodilla, sap-ō-dil′a, n. a name given in the West Indies to the fruit of several species of Achras, the seeds aperient and diuretic, the pulp subacid and sweet.

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In medicine it is employed as an aperient, and is one of the safest and most innocuous known.

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