| The overuse of bleeding, mercury, arsenic, opium, emetics, and purgatives weakened patients almost as much as the diseases of the day. |
| In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings! |
| Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives. |
| In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites. |
| He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel. |
| His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically. |
