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Excerpt from Evacuant Medication: Cathartics and Emetics
Finally, the great convenience of its use has suggested Croton oil as a cathartic in the case of children and of the incorrigibly insane; but this is a relic of the barbarism of medicine, except so far as the coincidence of some special condition might warrant recourse to so harsh a material) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
