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Cathartic   /kəθˈɑrtɪk/   Listen
noun
Cathartic  n.  (Med.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated, and watery evacuations.


adjective
Catharical, Cathartic  adj.  
1.
(Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
2.
Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.





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"Cathartic" Quotes from Famous Books



... system by their violent cathartic action, must not be taken for constipation. The mild, soothing and painless operation of Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient is exactly what is required, and will speedily ...
— The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various
... Pa-sa-is-kit-a, is endured. This drink was described to me as having both a nauseating smell and taste. It is probably a mixture similar to that used by the Creek in the last century at a like ceremony. It acts as both an emetic and a cathartic, and it is believed among the Indians that unless one drinks of it he will be sick at some time in the year, and besides that he cannot safely eat of the green corn of the feast. During the drinking the dance begins and proceeds; in ...
— The Seminole Indians of Florida • Clay MacCauley
... M. M. Venesection. Cathartic with calomel. Divide the wounded artery. Bind sponge on the puncture. If coffee or charcoal internally? If air with ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... effects of anodynes, even out of all relative proportion to other kinds of medicines. The circumstances and conditions of the system increase or diminish the effects of medicine, so that an aperient at one time may act as a cathartic at another, and a dose that will simply prove to be an anodyne when the patient is suffering great pain will act as a narcotic when he is not. This explains why the same dose often affects individuals differently. The following ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... perennial old world tendril-bearing vines (family Cucurbitaceae) having large leaves, small flowers, and red or black fruit; Dried root of a bryony (Bryonia alba or B. dioica) used as a cathartic. ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter


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