aperient
Example Sentences
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Milk is very laxative, and sometimes, where there is no biliousness, a small saucerful makes a good aperient.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
A mild tonic, as well as an aperient, is plainly indicated soon after the commencement of rot.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
Acting on this idea, I administered five grains of iodide of potassium, and thirty grains of bicarbonate of potassium, four times every twenty-four hours, after giving a moderate saline aperient.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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
In medicine it is employed as an aperient, and is one of the safest and most innocuous known.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
