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Excerpt from On the Mechanism of the Physiological Action of the Cathartics
The following pages contain an account of a long series of experiments made to determine the action of saline purg atives. Many of the results have been separately published in various scientific journals, and they are now gathered together with certain new material in an attempt to give as connected and complete an account as possible of the action of this class of drugs.
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