Meanings of purgative medicine in English

The purgative medicine neither increased the urine, nor relieved the breathing, till the Foxglove was added.

He needed purgative medicine on the eighth day, which they refused to allow him to take.

We sanction, also, another well-known rule, and that is, that no purgative medicine should be taken immediately before or during the change.

This, however, is not the case with all kinds of purgative medicine, nor does the same purgative produce a like effect upon all children.

But it is rarely that they take purgative medicines.

(6) Fortunately purgative medicines rarely cause inflammation of the laminæ.

Let me, at the risk of wearying you, again urge the importance of your avoiding, as much as possible, giving a babe purgative medicines.

These create a necessity for purgative medicines and carminatives, which again weaken digestion, and, by unnatural irritation, perpetuate the evils which render them necessary.