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  • If the banks stick with it, you might have this constipatory effect of values being mythically high.

    Nick Leslau brings his millions to London's ancient harbour 2011

  • Would that make it a constipatory ‘Document Dump Interruptus’?

    B.C.’s P3 projects not immune to world financial meltdown « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

  • Here it may not be superfluous to say that the former preparation has all the essential properties of the latter, save certain of the constipatory and stupefying tendencies which, by a private process known to the assigns of the inventor, have been so masked or removed that it possesses in many cases an availableness which the practitioner can not despise, though compelled by the secrecy of its formula to rank it among quack medicines.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • There is a little citrate of potash, which is a feeble diuretic; a little citrate and sulphate of magnesia, a slight aperient, corrected, however, by the constipatory half grain of sulphate of lime; so that the whole practically is inoperative.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various

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