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black draught
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synonyms: aperient, lenitive, cathartic ???
tags: [Rx]
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Definition:a medicinal laxative---a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate?"
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Smile from the inside out smile from the inside out Black Draught makes you smile from the inside out.
Dolly Parton, a jingle for Black Draught
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how could I offend a man who was charitable enough to sit at my bedside a good hour, and talk on some other subject than pills and draughts, blisters and leeches?
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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He was taken ill in the night—quite prostrate he was—in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse’s constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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