Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues

James Joyce. Ulysses

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the inferior and decadent writer, who is more subjective, though unfinished, distills a more irritating aperient and acid balm than the artist of the same period who is truly great.

Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours.

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they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.”

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)