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For the simple articles of this class, see "Cathartics," Materia Medica, where you will find them described.
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Cathartics with their harsh action on the delicate membranes are contraindicated.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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Cathartics or laxatives should not be taken except for an occasional dose or during illness upon the advice of a physician.
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Cathartics are medicines which accelerate the action of the bowels, or increase the discharge by stool.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Cathartics that aid in the removal of edematous fluids and thus promote the discharge of watery fluid from the bowels. hydrocele
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Cathartics and purgatives are not to be given; in due time the object will appear in the stool.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Cathartics are irritants and it is a very poor beginning to abuse the mucous membrane of the intestinal tract immediately.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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Cathartics should be administered, and eliminative measures instituted such as the hot-blanket pack.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Cathartics invariably make the real condition more obstinate and serious.
Vitality Supreme Bernarr Macfadden 1911
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Cathartics act by drawing off a large quantity of fluid from the blood through the intestines, and have the advantage over the last remedy of removing only the watery and not the formed elements from the circulation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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