Two or three strong Cinnamon or Ginger Lozenges, (see page 234,) gradually dissolved in the mouth when the Stomach is empty, will act as an Aperient on many persons.
During the time I was under this training, I took the opinion of an eminent Physician upon the subject, who entirely approved of my Plan, and recommended the occasional use of Aperient medicine, but which I seldom resorted to.
I have never tried any treatment except a gentle aperient and a mash diet, except in one or two extreme cases where a lance was applied.
The aperient draught I prescribed contained magnesia and soda.
I gave him quinine as a tonic, and anaperient composed of cream of tartar, magnesia, and sulphur.
I prescribed for him (taking his complaint to be bilious derangement) an aperient draught.
Flour of Brimstone is a mild aperient in doses of about a quarter of an ounce; it is best taken in milk.
If it should not act on the bowels, take mild aperient medicine every fourth hour; but this is not to be repeated after a motion has been procured.
Open the bowels regularly every day, with some mild aperient medicine, such as castor oil, senna, etc.
Gingerbread made with oatmeal instead of flour, is a very useful aperientfor children.
Nature has provided the means for its removal, by giving to the new milk an aperient quality.
Therefore it is advisable to wait, even to the third day, for the appearance of the milk, rather than attempt to remove the meconium by castor oil, or any other mild aperient medicine.
Gingerbread, made with oatmeal or with barley flour, is a very agreeable aperient for children.
Oatmeal, where it is found to agree with the stomach, is much better for children, being a mildaperient as well as cleanser; fine flour in every shape is the reverse.
The common aperient medicine known as black draught is made in the following manner: i.
Flour of Brimstone is a mild aperient in doses of about a quarter of an ounce; it is best taken in milk.
When these drops are employed, they should be given in honey or treacle for ten or fifteen days, and an aperient powder every fourth morning, to expel the killed worms.
In the spring time of the year, the judicious use of aperient medicines is much to be commended.
I continued the aperient medicine, and ordered a warm lotion to be applied, consisting of the liquor plumbi acetatis and infusion of digitalis.
His appetite, which was never much impaired, has returned: this is to be attributed to strychnia, or the seton, or the daily aperient mixture.
Leeches were again employed; emollient lotions and aperient medicines were resorted to.
Some aperientmedicine was given, which was retained on the stomach, and enemas and external stimulants were resorted to, but two days afterwards he died.
Give an aperient ball, and the mixture as before in the evening.
In more confirmed palsy, the charge, or plaster on the loins, is added to the action of the aperient on the bowels.
An aperient ball was given; and twice afterwards in the day, the nitre, antimonial powder, and digitalis.
Bleeding, aperient and cooling medicines are indicated, and also applications of the subacetate of lead, or spermaceti ointment.
The animal for some days previous to his admission into the hospital had refused his food, and there was obstinate constipation of the bowels, to remove which aperient medicine had been given.
Thus bound up, the dog was replaced in his hamper, and had some aperient medicine given to him.
I gave him a dose of aperient medicine, and on the following morning commenced my operation.
Any mineral salt used as anaperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
In all the cases detailed by our author, the iodine was administered after purgatives, and throughout the treatment, the bowels were carefully regulated by aperient medicines.
The dried root is steeped in boiling water and is used as a stomachic and tonic, with slight diuretic and aperient action.
Burdock root has quite a reputation among home practitioners among the white men as a diaphoretic, diuretic, alterative, aperient and depurative.
Of the still class, a wine put into bottles when about ten or twelve months old designated, ptisannes of Champagne, is greatly recommended as aperient and diuretic.
Still I must think that vegetable food is, in my own case, less aperient than animal.
Vegetable diet is less aperient than a mixed diet, if we except Indian corn.
I am inclined to think that a vegetable diet is more aperient than an animal one; indeed, I may say I know it to be a fact.
Thus, for example, the various replies marked 6, refer to the length or duration of the experiment or experiments which had been made; and those marked 9, to the aperient effects of a diet exclusively vegetable.
So much for the minds of my children; and, with regard to their bodily health, I shall make them swallow one of Anderson's Scot's Aperient Pills every night of their blessed lives!
I merely administered one of Inglish's excellent aperient Scott's pills to the dear infant," Paragon replied, calmly.
The fluid food will have all the aperient effect that can be desired.
When a bitch has devoured her young, let an emetic be administered; and should the bowels be costive, an aperient be exhibited.
Brown bread and oatmeal porridge have also an aperient effect.
As a result of this restricted accommodation, the habit of using aperient medicines is acquired with very injurious results, for if the call of nature is neglected the desire passes away, and constipation is inevitable.
In no case have I yet been obliged to abstract blood; a dose of aperientmedicine being all that was required.
At this time he consulted the surgeon of the subdivision with which he was connected; his treatment was fomentations to the leg and aperient medicine occasionally.
Here's the proposition: Say there were two glasses of aperient water standing on a table.
An aperient should at once follow bleeding; and if the animal is strong and plathoric, a sheep of the size of the Merino would require at least two ounces of Epsom salts, and one of the large mutton sheep, more.
Bleed freely; diminish the quantity of food; and give an active aperient every second day.
Light food and change of air; and, if necessary, aperient medicine, such as castor oil, with a little burned butter.
The bowels should be opened by an aperient the night before the operation, as it is desirable to keep them confined for the first two days afterwards, so as to avoid straining.
An aperient should be given the same evening, as any foul breath or feverish condition is more likely to be due to blood and mucus in the stomach than to local sepsis.
This may be vomited as consciousness returns; if not, an aperient should be given within 24 hours to prevent gastro-intestinal sepsis.
They are accounted aperient and diuretic, and have also been celebrated as aphrodisiac: their virtues, however, are too weak to admit them under the head of medicines.
It has long been held in great esteem, and not undeservedly, as an aperient and deobstruent, particularly in hysteric complaints, and suppressions of the uterine purgations.
This is an efficacious aperient and deobstruent; it promotes the fluid secretions, and, if liberally taken, gently loosens the belly.
These are recommended as aperient and vulnerary, as also in gouty and rheumatic pains.
These are doubtless an useful aperient and deobstruent; promote the fluid secretions in general, and liberally taken loosen the belly.
Hence some have recommended it as an astringent in dysenteries, a diuretic, and others as an aperient and deobstruent in scrophulous habits.
Savine is a warm irritating aperient medicine, capable of promoting all the glandular secretions.
The water here is bad, and of a strong aperient quality.
This is a very good reason for those who are pregnant avoiding all quack aperient medicines; they almost all contain aloes, and may be very injurious.
Should the inflammation be obstinate, a little citerine ointment may be applied, care being taken that it does not get into the eye, and an aperient should be tried.
In addition to this it possesses gentleaperient properties, which render it particularly wholesome.
Senna is an admirable aperient for a child, and is a safe one, which is more than can be said of many others.
While the eruption is out, do not on any account give aperient medicine.
Aperient medicines are, in my opinion, highly improper and dangerous both before and during the period of the eruption.
He should take as little aperient medicine as possible, avoiding especially both calomel and blue pill.
But after all, a dose of mild aperient medicine, when the babe is suffering severely, is often the best remedy for "wind.
Do not administer opening medicine, as there might be some "breaking out" cooling out on the skin, and an aperient might check it.
In ten days from the commencement of the illness a mild aperient may be given.
On the sixth day, but not until then, a dose or two of a mild aperient is all that will be required.
Simple cases frequently yield to a dose or two of some saline aperientand a change of diet.
Among the aperient medicines most suitable to dyspepsia may be mentioned--Epsom salts, phosphate of soda, and Seidlitz powders, each of which should be taken largely diluted with water.
Aperient and vermifuge; and emetic, in large doses.
The occasional use of aperient and emollient enemata may be had recourse to; but their habitual administration, as well as that of purgative medicines generally, by the mouth, is not to be recommended.
In the flatulent colic of infants, and as an adjunct to aperient medicine.
The above differ from aperient draughts simply in their greater strength.
By increasing the quantity of the active ingredients, a mild laxative or aperient clyster is converted into an active purgative or cathartic one.
A teaspoonful to allay irritation, assisted by an occasional dose of aperient medicine; in asthma, chronic coughs, &c.
One third; as an aperient for females who object to taking the unprepared oil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aperient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cathartic; diuretic; laxative; physic; purgative; purge
