Meanings of aperient medicine in English

He should take as little aperient medicine as possible, avoiding especially both calomel and blue pill.

Give him a little mild, aperient medicine.

Children of sound health, who are judiciously fed, and have sufficient exercise, very seldom need aperient medicine.

The proper dose will depend upon the age, and the known effect of aperient medicine upon the childsome requiring more, others less:

If they be neither the one nor the other, give a dose of aperient medicine, which will generally put all to rights.

In the same way aperient medicine, taken by the mother, will act on the child's bowels, through the effect which it produces upon her milk.

They know how to let blood, and to compound different sorts of aperient medicines.

Aperient medicine, too, is sometimes unwittingly repeated to remove those symptoms which it has itself produced.

M. Juliac had heretofore treated the sick as was commonly practised in Terra Firma, and in the island, by bleeding, aperient medicines, and acid drinks.