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Sentence Examples
Gastric lavage, emetics, activated charcoal, cathartics, etc., should be used when indicated.
There is no evidence that cathartics reduce absorption or toxicity, however.
Once the most popular of cathartics, calomel has been used in medicine since the 16th century.
They may take strong cathartics unadulterated to purify their bellies, such as, for instance, unripe colocynths, Thapsia garganica, and Euphorbia.
Mercury is used in the manufacture of skin medicine, dental amalgam, plastics, cathartics, paints, fungicides, cosmetics, and scientific instruments.
They knew poisons, emetics, cathartics, antifebriles, tonics, narcotics, and hemostatics, cleansing solutions, healing gums and powders.
Most cathartics produce their diarrheic effect by irritating the intestinal mucosa or by increasing the contents, particularly with fluid.
Use saline cathartics and gastric lavages.
This was especially important because the medical staff members had to wake patients every hour for at least two days to take the various pills, cathartics and tinctures of the belladonna regime.
If we are not mistaken, this is one of the popular Russian remedies...It is not necessary to take cathartics, simply eating a whole cocoanut being sufficient.
Examples from Classical Literature
Purgatives and hydragogue cathartics usually fail to give relief, and add much to the patient's discomfort.
The highly irritable and congested intestinal mucous membrane precludes the employment of hydragogue cathartics.
Daily evacuations will not empty this cavity, nor will cathartics or diarrhea.
Both gratify the innate love for self-medication by a resort to cathartics for the slightest ailment.
Mademoiselle Cormon was, without being aware of it, made happier by such little quarrels, which served as cathartics to relieve her bitterness.
First in point of efficacy for this purpose are the hydragogue cathartics.
Cathartics should be administered, and eliminative measures instituted such as the hot-blanket pack.
Cathartics, especially those of a hydragogue nature, are also very beneficial.
