- Laxatives,
purgatives, or
aperients are
substances that
loosen stools and
increase bowel movements. They are used to
treat and
prevent constipation. Laxatives...
-
vision of God; deification;
union with God The
three aspects later became purgative, illuminative, and
unitive in the
western churches and
prayer of the lips...
-
Black draught (Latin: Haustous) was a
patent medicine used as a
purgative in the 19th
century and well into the
early part of the 20th century, with veterinarians...
-
treatments he was given,
which included multiple doses of
calomel (a
purgative) and
extensive bloodletting,
likely resulting in
hypovolemic shock. Washington's...
- co-dominant in the
calcareous shrublands in
which it occurs, it is a
purgative.
Botanical illustration Habit Spent flower "Globularia
alypum L." Plants...
-
Galen (2nd
century AD)
disagreed with the use of
surgery and
recommended purgatives instead.
These recommendations largely stood for 1000 years. In the 15th...
- the
morning on 5 March, one of the
papal doctors fed
Innocent XIII a
purgative, however, this
backfired and only
aggravated the hernia. An attempted...
- to
develop a more
discerning love for Christ. The
retreat follows a "
Purgative-Illuminative-Unitive"
pattern in the
tradition of the
spirituality of...
-
inscribed with
writing that "[set]
forth [the
price of]
vegetables and
purgatives for the
workmen there were paid out over
sixteen hundred talents." The...
- the
Elder in his book
Natural History), and was
traditionally used as a
purgative and salve. It is now used as a
finishing salt to
flavor and
garnish food...
