aperient

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The old Lady Webster dinner pill is an excellent tonic aperient.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

Diocles the Carystian, in his treatise on the Wholesomes, says that the best of all shell-fish, as aperient and diuretic food, are mussels, oysters, scallops, and cockles.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Cascara, kas′ka-ra, n. the Cascara sagrada, a Californian bark used as a tonic aperient: the Cascara amarga, a bitter Honduras bark.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

He always said he knew nothing that cheered him up so, and was such a good aperient, as brush and comb.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

A sirup made from this plant is a valuable aperient in cattle practice.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George