A purgative will also be found useful.
"Cattle and Their Diseases" by Robert Jennings
And if I know not how Purgation in general is effected in a Humane Body?
"The Sceptical Chymist" by Robert Boyle
If this is not effective a purgative must be given.
"Special Report on Diseases of the Horse" by United States Department of Agriculture
It occurs in several recipes of the Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms, as a strong and bitter purgative.
"The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare" by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
The bowels should be freely moved by purgatives or enemata.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition." by Alexander Miles
When the strength admits of it, the purgative may be given every four or five days.
"North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826" by Various
This annual purgation of society, is perhaps another blessing of a tropical country.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns" by Nathaniel Ames
And within four days of this purgative process a marked change was noticeable.
"England and Germany" by Emile Joseph Dillon
There the purgative process goes forward, as explained in a previous chapter.
"Elementary Theosophy" by L. W. Rogers
He thinks it is purgative.
"Flowers of Freethought" by George W. Foote
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("If you would learn the woes that vex
Poor TANTALUS, down there,
Pray borrow of Papa an ex-
Purgated LEMPRIERE.)
"The Two Ogres" by William Schwenck Gilbert
"We have passed through our purgation,
Once again we are thy kin;
God, accept our expiation,
Maiden pure of mortal sin."
"Lita of the Nile" by Richard Doddridge Blackmore