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Definition of Cathartics
1. cathartic [n] - See also: cathartic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cathartics
Literary usage of Cathartics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The irritant cathartics produce a more violent intestinal congestion, ...
cathartics favor the absorption of dropsies by carrying off liquid from the body; ..."
2. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1867)
"cathartics. The increase of peristaltic motion, and the augmented product of the
intestinal mucous tissue, spring from the irritation which is exerted upon ..."
3. Manual of Serum Diagnosis: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for by Bernarr Macfadden, Otto Rostoski (1904)
"But you must not take up the treatment for two or three days, then begin to doubt,
and soon go back to cathartics, dietetic sins and lack of exercise. ..."
4. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"Different cathartics affect different parts of the alimentary canal ...
Saline cathartics, which increase both the peristaltic action of the bowels and the ..."
5. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"Another theory is that the saline cathartics fail to penetrate into the cell,
exactly as the salts of the metals fail to penetrate the red blood cells, ..."
6. A Text-book of pharmacology and some allied sciences: (therapeutics, Materia by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1906)
"cathartics are employed to remove poisons — bacterial or ... This also affords
relief to the kidneys, so that cathartics may be useful in nephritis. 5. ..."
7. Lectures on materia medica and therapeutics by John Brodhead Beck (1856)
"cathartics. cathartics are defined to be " those medicines which quicken or
increase the evacuations from the intestines; or which, ..."
8. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1888)
"Clinic of Saline cathartics in Pleuritic Effusion. ... For the relief of the
effusion he relies upon the effects produced by saline cathartics, ..."
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