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- noun Plural form of
purgative .
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Examples
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Gage was brought to a local physician, John Harlow, who treated him with the usual purgatives and poisons, amputated the herniated brain tissue, and closed his skull as best he could.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Benjamin Rush worked tirelessly to care for the afflicted, but his treatments—bloodlettings, purgatives, and icy baths—were often fatal.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Benjamin Rush worked tirelessly to care for the afflicted, but his treatments—bloodlettings, purgatives, and icy baths—were often fatal.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The intake of medicine figured into the category of food and drink, bleeding and purgatives were an important element of bodily evacuations, and much attention was given to the type of environment or air best suited for curing ailments.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Then they made him clean the cell and left him for some days before feeding him emetics and purgatives so that he had to go through the whole process again.
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His mental problems coincided with a string of betting setbacks, huge gambling debts and self‑inflicted physical punishment as the constant starvation and purgatives took their toll as he forced himself to do increasingly lower weights.
The Tinman's Farewell by Michael Tanner – review Tony Paley 2010
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The main cause of colitis is frequent use of purgatives and chronic constipation.
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One of the major factors contributing to the development of appendicitis is the inflammation of the bowel lining due to the habitual use of purgatives.
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For now, the Iranians in Diaspora could only serve as the centers of communications, while leveraging their purgatives on their newly adopted countries government to severe diplomatic ties and trades with Iran while demanding respect to international conventions including human rights and safety of citizens Iran is also a signatory to.
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Excessive use of purgatives and laxatives irritate the rectal lining and result in the inflammation and enlargement of veins and disturb the mucus lining.
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