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Assuming cathartic is required, the following 5 results were found.

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    be brought to furnish a whole Apothecary’s Shop: It will answer the Physician’s Intention whether he wants to employ a Cathartic, or an Emetic, a Tonic, Diaphoretic, Deobstruent, Bezoardic, Cordial, etc. REGULUS OF ANTIMONY, or Purification of Antimony....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ANTIMONIALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANTIMONIALS

    See ANTIMONY. Antimonials are chiefly of an emetic tendency; though they may be so qualified as to become either Cathartic, or Diaphoretic, or even only Alterative. See EMETIC, CATHARTIC, etc. Dr. Quincy assures, that there are no Medicines in Pharmacy...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    half a Dram is an ordinary Dose.—Scarce any of the Officinal Pills are without this in their Composition.See PILL. Its cathartic Virtue, is best employed in watery, cold, and corpulent Constitutions, as it heats and attenuates;being bad for thin and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • AGARIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AGARIC

    practice has almost done: for that it rather makes people sick, than purges them; being very nauseous, and but little cathartic. See PURGATIVE. By a chemical solution, it passes almost wholly into oil: It yields no volatile salt; but abounds with a sort...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Pharmacy

  • ASARABACKAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASARABACKA

    has a pretty brisk Smell, and bites the tongue when tasted.—Its Leaves were anciently much in Use, as an Emetic, and Cathartic; and in some Authors we find a superstitious Observance in the gathering them: They allege, that if thePlant be pulled forward...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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