aperient
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A question which is frequently asked is as to the desirability or otherwise of giving a toy bitch worm medicine, or an aperient, while she is in pup or just before her babies arrive.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie
Gymnocladus, jim-nok′lad-us, n. a genus of North American trees, the pods slightly aperient.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
An old-fashioned piece of advice in distemper, and one always given, was that at the outset of the disease a dose of castor oil, or some other aperient, should be administered.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie
No time should be lost: the aperient must be given immediately; warm injections must be thrown into the rectum, and the teats must be industriously drawn, to solicit the secretion of milk.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
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
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