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Definition of Purgatives
1. purgative [n] - See also: purgative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purgatives
Literary usage of Purgatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"Saline purgatives have an enormous advantage over purgatives of vegetable ...
These drugs fail to act as purgatives because many of them contain astringent ..."
2. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"purgatives. purgatives are drugs which are employed in medicine to evacuate the
bowel of ... The vegetable purgatives act through their irritant properties, ..."
3. A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Or, The Action of Drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1915)
"purgatives. purgatives are drugs which are employed in medicine to evacuate the
bowel of ... The vegetable purgatives act through their irritant properties, ..."
4. A Compend of Human Anatomy by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1903)
"Saline purgatives produce watery stools, by increasing secretion and stimulating
... Drastic purgatives cause violent action of the bowels, in large doses ..."
5. The History, diagnosis, and treatment of the fevers of the United States by Elisha Bartlett (1856)
"purgatives. The use of purgatives in typhus fever by British physicians has ...
Nearly all the Irish writers reckon purgatives second only in importance to ..."
6. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1912)
"A FURTHER PROTEST AGAINST THE ROUTINE USE OF purgatives. BY EDWIN WALKER, MD,
Evansville, Indiana. AT the meeting of this Association in 1906 I presented a ..."
7. A Practical Manual of the Diseases of Children, with a Formulary. by Edward Ellis (1879)
"purgatives— Castor Oil. Aloes. Rhubarb. Jalap. Senna. ... Saline purgatives—
Sulphate of Potash. Sulphate of Soda. Sulphate of Magnesia. Tartrate of Potash. ..."
8. The History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Fevers of the United States by Elisha Bartlett (1852)
"purgatives. The use of purgatives in typhus fever by British physicians has ...
Nearly all the Irish writers reckon purgatives second only in importance to ..."
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