Epsom Salt is purgativeand bitter; and therefore named Sal Catharticum Amarum, or bitter purging Salts.
The great number of sublimations, which the Sweet Sublimate is made to undergo, sweeten it still more, and to such a degree that it leaves no sensation on the tongue, nor hath any purgative virtue.
A particular sort of Diaphoretic Antimony is sometimes prepared for Medical uses, which hath a purgative quality: it is not washed at all, and is therefore called Unwashed Diaphoretic Mineral.
Both the Vegetable Salt and Saignette's Salt are gently purgative soaps, and much used in Medicine.
This compound may be taken internally, and is purgative or emetic according to the dose administered.
If this is not effective a purgative must be given.
If the animal is constipated, relieve this symptom by injections (enemas) of warm water into the rectum three or four times a day, but do not administer purgative medicines, except of a mild character.
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Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer.
Croton Oil: as a purgative in cerebral concussion, etc.
Potassium Bitartrate: purgative where the blood is poisoned.
Acidulated Water or Non-purgative Alkaline Water: for thirst.
Among our native plants the roots of Bryonia dioica, in common with the perennial roots of all the plants in the order, possess these purgative properties.
At the same time, the action of the bowels must be kept up by Epsom salts, or common salt, or sulphur, and the proportion of the purgative and the sedative must be so managed, that the constitution shall be under the influence of both.
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.
A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities.
Then the inoculated animals, placed under the control of hygienic cares and a few purgative and tonic medications, would have passed from convalescence to health.
If the animal is strong, lusty, exuberant with health, let him be purged once or twice, the purgative to be given at intervals of twenty-four hours.
If this does not succeed, ten or twenty electric shocks through the kidney should be tried, and the purgative repeated, and afterwards the opiate.
And this accounts for the constipation of the belly left after the purgative quality of rhubarb ceases, for it increases absorption in a smaller dose, and secretion in a greater.
Whosoever takes much physic in his youth, shall soon bewail it in his old age:" purgative physic especially, which doth much debilitate nature.
In none of the “formulas” are the proportions of the purgative drugs in Veracolate stated.
Fresh fruit and vegetables counteract constipation for two reasons, namely, because they leave in the bowels a relatively large amount of undigested substance, and because they contain ingredients that have a specific purgative action.
I see no objection to an occasional enema if purgative medicine has been taken without effect, but constant use of them, more than likely, will result in the enema habit.
Aloes is a purgativewhich acts chiefly on the large bowel and to some degree also on the liver, and is of most use in the habitual constipation of weakly children.
There are many indications that this purgative function of literature is the main thing it is for in our present modern life.
These are combined, however, with a purgative of greater activity, most probably jalap.
It contains a resinous, purgative principle, and is known to country folk as a safe, active purge.
The ripe fruit, from which a medicinal tincture is prepared, furnishes euonymin, a golden resin, which is purgative and emetic.
The original reputation of this herb was acquired because of its purgative properties, which enabled it to carry off black bile which was causing insanity.
These preparations are in moderate doses, strengthening and antiscorbutic; but when given more largely they are purgative and emetic.
A weak infusion of the whole plant with boiling water makes a simple and easy purgative dose, but a strong infusion will act as an emetic.
In Cornwall if the herb is to be used as an emetic they strip it upwards, if for a purgative downwards.
They give the fruit, three or four for a dose, as a purgative in rural districts: and employ the decoction, whilst adding some vinegar, as a lotion against mange in horses and cattle.
The common Buckthorn grows in our woods and thickets, and used to be popularly known because of the purgative syrup made from its juice and berries.
An infusion made from one drachm of the dried flowers, or from half an ounce of the fresh flowers, has a purgative effect.
It is, in any case, very certain that the marked and widespread movement of return to belief in a Middle State is distinctly towards a truly Purgative Purgatory, although few of these sincere truth-seekers are aware, as is Dr.
This first labor is what the masters of the spiritual life call the purgative way.
White men have considered this root to be pectoral, demulcent, purgative and anthelmintic.
It is a last resort purgative to be used when other remedies for the same complaint are of no avail.
Purgative, a popular purgative is composed of eight parts of aloes, two parts of glycerine, one part powdered ginger, well-mixed and given in a dose of from six to eight drams.
Linseed oil is also a purgative and less irritating than aloes; the dose is from ten to thirty ounces.
