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Definition of Laxatives
1. laxative [n] - See also: laxative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laxatives
Literary usage of Laxatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces of by Henry William Herbert (1849)
"Laxatives are good preventives against that habitual costiveness common to dogs
and all other carnivorous animals : such, therefore, as are flesh-fed should ..."
2. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1913)
"These are: (a) Some very weak laxatives. (b) The fixed oils and their products
... (a) VERY WEAK Laxatives The very weak laxatives include certain drugs ..."
3. Lectures to General Practitioners on the Diseases of the Stomach and by Boardman Reed (1904)
"Laxatives and purgatives constitute a very important class of remedies, though
perhaps none are more frequently abused. The need of regular and complete ..."
4. Selections from favorite prescriptions of living American practitioners by Horace Green (1860)
"Cathartics. are usually divided into purgatives and laxatives. ... Laxatives are
those agents which, by their relaxing efforts on the intestines, ..."
5. On Diseases Peculiar to Women: Including Displacements of the Uterus by Hugh Lenox Hodge (1868)
"Laxatives are often required to obviate the usual tendency to constipation, and
thus to favor the secretory and digestive processes. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"It gives way almost always to gentle laxatives. In order to meet the indication
properly, it should be ascertained, if practicable, whether the liver is in ..."
7. Materia Medica and Therapeutics: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by Levi Farr Warner (1892)
"Laxatives. What are laxatives ? Laxatives are cathartics which mildly produce
... They are mild laxatives and antacids. Magnesia is said not to be laxative ..."
8. A Compend of Human Anatomy by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1903)
"Laxatives. Sulphur Lotum, Washed Sulphur. (See page 73. ... Also all the Simple
Purgatives in minimum doses may be classed as laxatives. ..."
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