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The use of castor oil and other strong purgatives do not interrupt it.

They were esteemed good purgatives, and used on diverse occasions.

They might puke after food intake or take purgatives.

Treatments no longer focused solely on purgatives and included sedatives.

The fruits have been used as purgatives against constipation.

It is what the lords asked for: purgatives and vomiting powders.

The roots have been used as purgatives for a couple of thousand years in Europe and Asia.

Obstinate constipation is uncommon, and strong purgatives are seldom needed.

Similarly, long-continued administration of strong purgatives tends to make them a permanent necessity.

If necessary, solvents or other purgatives can be run through the engine to finish dispersion.

In another respect, however, it is a disadvantage, for it sometimes interferes with giving the mother purgatives, which she may need.

A rhubarb purgative was what he needed.

Others ruined the intestines -they were simply drastic purgatives.

But I had seen impactions like this before and tried treating them with purgatives and it didn't work.

(Not surprisingly, constipation is virtually unknown and purgatives never resorted to.

Galen (2nd century AD) disagreed with the use of surgery and recommended purgatives instead.

Suggested treatments including bleeding, the use of clysters, purgatives and fumigation.

His subsequent pain was diagnosed as indigestion; he was given purgatives and most doctors left after their evening consultation.

Book V - Medicines, including opiates, diuretics, purgatives and laxatives.

Cures included bleeding and purgatives, as well as a repellent diet of "easily digested food."

Strong purgatives administered with other drugs on or after the calculated date frequently bring about delivery, whereas previous attempts of this kind prove unsuccessful.

Amongst working class women violent purgatives were popular, pennyroyal, aloes and turpentine were all used.

The doctor's task was to get rid of the offending surplus fluid through the use of bloodletting, purgatives and mercury.

Osteomalacia and arthropathy associated with prolonged abuse of purgatives.

Hence, all lunatics were forced to take purgatives which induced diarrhoea and vomiting once every month, regardless of their physical condition.

So in a way the film was an important purgative thing for me to do."

At its best, however, it is more restorative than purgative.

She believed that punishment after death was purgative, not punitive.

This is the characteristic work of the purgative way.

It is actually not a purgative but a mild laxative.

And unlike professional wrestling, it is saturated in purgative gore.

Characteristically, there were Greens who welcomed the purgative effect of the crisis.

He died, of a purgative overdose, on Friday, 21 September 1810.

The bark, seeds and young leaves are purgative.

Sometimes roasted and eaten, although they are purgative.

As the name suggests, the tea's purgative properties were one of its main uses, most often ritually.

Leaves possess purgative properties which may be due to the latex present in the stems.

Its intense amplification, frantic speed and brutal repetition is purgative.

"A purgative, a good strong one," he said.

The water was found to be possessed of purgative qualities, and was for some time used medicinally.

Raw seeds violently purgative, often fatal due to exhaustion.

The purgative action is probably due to abundant 1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone and derivatives thereof.

The roots when left uncooked have purgative properties.

The berry is purgative, very bitter and in large quantities is toxic to humans.

The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines.

Not too long ago, during another high tide of a culture war, purgative right-wing vigilantism occurred at regular intervals.

"A purgative and a stiff close of ipecac."

In high doses, it acts as purgative.

In the purgative stage the Christian is occupied with overcoming sin and growing in virtue.

Whether or not it results in a purgative strong enough to clean these Augean stables seems doubtful."