aperient

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A question which is frequently asked is as to the desirability or otherwise of giving a toy bitch worm medicine, or an aperient, while she is in pup or just before her babies arrive.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie

The above aperient may then be ventured on with safety.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

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

A simple aperient of linseed oil may be given in cases of stricture or intussusception of the bowels.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

Saline, sā′līn, or sā-līn′, adj. consisting of, or containing, salt: partaking of the qualities of salt.—n. an effervescent powder used as a gentle aperient: a salt-spring.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various