aperient

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Aperient medicines to a healthy child are so much poison!

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

Aperient Powders.—Take of scammony and jalap, each 24 grains; grey powder and powdered antimony, each 18 grains.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Aperient, a-pē′-ri-ent, adj. opening: mildly purgative.—n. any laxative medicine.

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

Aperient medicine, too, is sometimes unwittingly repeated to remove those symptoms which it has itself produced.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

It is because Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient reduces the heat of the blood by creating perspiration, as well as through its purgative operation, that it produces such marvelous effect in ferbile diseases.

From The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various