aperient
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Given in doses of half an ounce of the powdered bark, it acts as an aperient, and is good wherever an aperient is indicated.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
The above aperient may then be ventured on with safety.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
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.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
This medicine is rather constipating; a slight aperient, if only a dose of Carlsbad salts before breakfast or a seidlitz powder, may be taken to counteract it in this respect.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
No time should be lost: the aperient must be given immediately; warm injections must be thrown into the rectum, and the teats must be industriously drawn, to solicit the secretion of milk.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
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