cathartick

His diary gives the treatment: “Seized with an ague before 6 o'clock this morning after having laboured under a fever all night ” Sent for Dr. Craik who arrived just as we were setting down to dinner; who, when he thought my fever sufficiently abated gave me cathartick and directed the Bark to be applied in the Morning.

The True George Washington Ford, Paul L 1896

Next day cathartick again, and the third day opium for my cough.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

I believe it was not an intermittent, for I took of my own head physick yesterday; and Celsus says, it seems, that if a cathartick be taken the fit will return certo certius.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Young and inexperienced as I was, I suggested the propriety of some cooling cathartick; but our doctor said no; my father required sleep, he must take a little warm gruel, and he would send him some physick in the morning.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 Henry Hunt 1804

I believe it was not an intermittent, for I took of my own head physick yesterday; and Celsus says, it seems, that if a cathartick be taken the fit will return _certo certius_.

Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767