"Aperient" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the dog-rose, each a spurious form of a plant quite distinct; while on the other hand we have the dog's-tooth grass, from the sharp-pointed shoots of its underground stem, and the dog-grass (Triticum caninu), because given to dogs as an aperient. ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... anything much," said the man reassuringly. "Leave him in bed, give him some lemon to drink so that he can perspire, and then an aperient. He has eaten something that has disagreed with him, ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... To take but little solid food. Aperient medicines. Introduce a candle smeared with mercurial ointment. Sponge-tent. Clysters with forty drops of laudanum. Introduce a leathern canula, or gut, and then either a wooden maundril, or blow it up with air, so as to distend the contracted part as much as the patient ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... who, having once obtained a "blue pill" prescription from a physician, gave and took it as a common aperient two or three times a week—with what effect may be supposed. In one case I happened to be the person to inform the physician of it, who substituted for the prescription a comparatively harmless aperient pill. The lady came to me and ...
— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale |
