costive

• The effects would have been comic but for a costive sobriety that seemed to have swept the City like an infection. —  SON OF A WITCH
• And one day in his own fine home, there among tongue and groove hardwood floors, imported Spanish tile, exquisite bathroom fixtures, Sammy found himself costive -- unable to perform, as it were. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 02 - February 2003
• DIARRHOEA.--Although the bowels in pregnancy are generally costive, they are sometimes in an opposite state, and are relaxed. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• HABITUALLY COSTIVE.--When a lady who is nursing is habitually costive, she ought to eat brown instead of white bread. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• If the bowels still become costive, give daily 1 ounce sulphate of soda and 20 grains of powdered nux vomica. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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