Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, an excessive purging; action of the bowels excited by a violent cathartic.
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In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not
Aphorisms 2007
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A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening upon hypercatharsis is bad.
Aphorisms 2007
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Twenty grains of the powdered root would produce emesis, sometimes followed by hypercatharsis.
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If given largely in insensibility of the stomach, liable to produce violent hypercatharsis and inflammation of stomach and bowels.
General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses, Confederate States of America. Surgeon General 1862
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Scammony, and other strong purges, are liable to produce hypercatharsis, if they are not nicely prepared, and accurately weighed, and are thence dangerous in common practice.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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