depurative

Updated: May 29, 2025

Others regarded it as a mucous discharge, or a depurative; and others, as a salutary crisis, removing from the constitution that which oppressed the different organs.

William Youatt - The Dog

Recently, the advantages resulting from the use of sulphate of iron, both as a preventive and curative, have been exhibited in France. It would appear that the most valuable depurative method of treatment yet resorted to is by the careful use of the Roman bath.

Robert Jennings - Cattle and Their Diseases: Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding,: And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which: They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their: Cure