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purgatives

n. (plural of purgative English)

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He also doubled your memory with antifebrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic robor-ants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel’s Epulotic Vulnerary.

Care should be taken to avoid constipation and it is better to achieve this by regulating the diet than by recourse to purgatives, which in the long run aggravate the trouble.