I consider my great success in the treatment of scarlet fever to be partly owing to my avoidance of aperients during the first ten days of the child's illness.
Let me, again, urge you not to give aperients in these cases, or in any case, unless you are absolutely compelled.
The frequent giving of aperients only adds to the stubbornness of the bowels.
Leeches over the right side, the seat of pain, blisters, aperients No.
Bleeding from the arm, leeches over the seat of pain, aperients No.
Aperients Aperientsare medicines which move the bowels gently, such as rhubarb, manna, and grey powder.
Local bleeding by means of leeches, blisters, aperients No.
Application of cold to the head, bleeding from the temples or back of the neck by leeches or cupping; aperients No.
Immediate and large bleeding from the arm, cupping at the back of the neck, leeches to the temples, aperients Nos.
To some adults all liquid medicines produce such nausea that pills are the only form in which aperients can be exhibited; the following is a useful formula: i.
The food, however, I alter; and by gentle aperients I endeavor to regulate the bowels.
When a foul or a diseased stomach is the cause, mild aperients should be administered; and if these do not succeed, an emetic may be given, scrupulous cleanliness of the teeth being observed, as in the former case.
Aperients are the medicines most frequently needed in the minor ailments of children, and a wise mother will not undertake herself the management of serious diseases.
Of all aperients castor oil is perhaps the safest, the least irritating, the most generally applicable; it acts on the bowels and does nothing more.
It was not difficult of cure; and it quickly disappeared when no other remedies were employed than mild aperients and diaphoretics.
If the bowels are confined, mild aperients should be taken, and if diarrh[oe]a is present, antacids and absorbents may be had recourse to with advantage.
Spirituous liquids as well as saline aperientsshould be eschewed.
The same remarks apply to aperients taken by the mouth.
Those of a full habit require aperients and depletion.
Aperients and diaphoretics, assisted by a cooling diet.
Diaphoretics and mild aperients may also be given, and a light, nutritious diet adopted throughout.
When the former is the case, mild aperients should be administered; and if these do not succeed, an emetic may be given, followed by an occasional dose of the Abernethy-medicines.
Indeed, the exhibition of aperients was often a kind of sheet anchor with them, with which they held on with determination when everything else failed them, and we can scarcely doubt that they were often right in doing so.
At the same time it may be admitted that, in the subordinate function of an adjuvant to the aperients which it is sometimes advisable to give, small doses of the acetic extract of colchicum seem to possess some value.
The most useful aperientsin such cases are rhubarb, aloes, senna, colocynth, or podophyllin.
The use of aperients is an important agent in developing the constipated habit by over-stimulating and wearing out muscular activity.
Indeed, when the bowels are not relaxed gentle aperients should be given, especially in plethoric subjects or in those with cutaneous eruptions (Clarke).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aperients" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
