How To Use Cathartic In A Sentence
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A circumambulation is a ritual which can be performed in different contexts: apotropaic, cathartic, and as rite of aggregation.
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Over the weekend, the student met with Norwegian Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg and other survivors - an experience she described as cathartic.
Reuters: Press Release
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Duma Key is not just a novel for the fans, but a cathartic response from King over his near-death accident in 1999; no doubt he relived his agonizing recovery while writing about Freemantle, and yet it is because of this firsthand experience, that Duma Key feels much more personal and empathetic.
2010 February 15 « The BookBanter Blog
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All people, including Chinese people, crave the cathartic release that laughter provides.
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And so if you don't beat the military uniform hard enough, we like to drop the roll, like, as soon as we put the fiber, the combat paper project through its workshops seeks to allow the veteran to kind of deconstruct their uniform and deconstruct their experiences in a very comfortable environment and create cathartic works of art.
CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009
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These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Was making it a cathartic experience, given his emotional situation at home?
Times, Sunday Times
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There are several cathartic therapies that involve primal screaming, rebirthing, or reparenting.
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Wouldn't it be wonderfully cathartic if all it took to tame that doe-eyed, imbecilic half-man -- not Charlie Sheen, we're talking about the child character Jake -- was someone who took the time to sit down with him and treat him like a German Shepard about to be euthanized?
Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
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The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.
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No matter how patronizing the comment parenthesized above may sound, it still proves mostly true: The EP shows a band still finding its strengths and developing its sound, unsure of its talent for cathartic drama.
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I haven't cried like that in a very, very long time. Here's fervently hoping it serves as some kind of cathartic purge.
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As the drummer spits out a cacophony of quick-wristed rhythms and slashing fills, the music rages on to a cathartic finale.
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[100] According to the "On-Line Medical Dictionary" hierapicra is "a warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.
Robert Carter Diary, 1726
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The movie pivots on not one but two such changes, and the result is exhaustingly cathartic, ultimately uplifting.
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From my own experience, I can confirm that possession is certainly both abreactive and cathartic.
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I have found the experience cathartic and empowering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Emodin can be cathartic or act as a laxative in humans, kills dipteran larvae, inhibits growth of bacteria and fungi and deters consumption by birds and mice [5].
Frugivore
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Hence in diabetes the lacteal system acts strongly, at the same time that the urinary lymphatics invert their motions, and transmit the chyle into the bladder; and in diarrhoea from crapula, or too great a quantity of food and fluid taken at a time, the lacteals act strongly, and absorb chyle or fluids from the stomach and upper intestines; while the lymphatics of the lower intestines revert their motions, and transmit this over-repletion into the lower intestines, and thus produce diarrhoea; which accounts for the speedy operation of some cathartic drugs, when much fluid is taken along with them.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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In Germany the trial was an essential cathartic process crucial to post-war regeneration.
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Sometimes it's cathartic to open up about the sad stuff.
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To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. — “Neutral, indeed,” said the doctor; “so neutral, that I’ll be crucified if ever they declare either for the patient or the disease.”
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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After all it seems to me that it is aggressive people who seem to display aggressive cathartic behaviour.
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The so-called "cathartic method" was a treatment for psychiatric disorders developed during 1881-1882 by Joseph Breuer with his patient "Anna O.
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-- The part employed is the fruit pulp, official in all the pharmacopoeias as a very energetic hydragogue cathartic.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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The dried pulp of its unripe, full-grown fruit constitutes the drug colocynth, which is used as a cathartic.
Chapter 10
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This has been a bruising but cathartic campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Initially I had the idea that if I could vent my spleen about life events it would be a cathartic exercise.
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Their sound is perhaps best described as arty chamber rock, and like Department of Eagles many of their songs swell toward cathartic, unsettling conclusions.
Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles
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The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.
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His laughter was cathartic, an animal yelp that brought tears to his eyes.
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The opening triumvirate is as strong as any string of songs he's written, and the wistful finality of the sweetly cathartic title track foreshadows a disappointing comedown.
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Whether it’s Coulter’s books, the millions of conservatives who enjoy them (hate, when cathartic, is actually quite enjoyable), or death threats against musicians who speak liberal opinions.
Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows
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This would have a cathartic effect; it would release us from the torments of hypocrisy, from the discomforts of a lie.
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Is the entertainment value of a kid sobering up after anesthesia or a baby burbling at random pieces of paper worth the costs of objectifying them for public consumption, however diverting, enlightening or cathartic?
'The Kids Grow Up' turns the lens on home videos and the right to privacy
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It started as a mild chuckle, elevated itself to a chortle, then blossomed into the longest, loudest, most cathartic hilarity he had ever experienced.
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The poem has been quite cathartic because I have had all those ideas for the images in my head for years.
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Other laxatives and cathartics are available.
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It is an extremely powerful cathartic (like a diarrhetic for your psyche).
SF/F Humor Roundup at SF Novelists
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It is on this fact that they founded their method of treatment, devised by Breuer and by him termed the cathartic method, though Freud prefers to call it the "analytic" method.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
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It's a defiantly anti-commercial album; one built more for cathartic expression than fretting over the amount of units sold.
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Gastrointestinal decontamination with activated charcoal and a cathartic may be useful in acute exposures if the drug was taken orally within the previous 60 minutes.
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Both methods, the discharging, or the so-called cathartic one, and the side-tracking method evidently demand the discovery of the starting point in the service of the therapy and here again several methods are at the disposal of the psychologist.
Psychotherapy
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Well I suppose at once extremely harrowing to give the evidence but in many ways extremely cathartic to do so.
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Furthermore, a substantial body of social research reports that engaging in cathartic expressions of anger does not eradicate aggressive urges but rather escalates them.
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As is so often the case, a roar shimmering with a cathartic feel greeted the opening whistle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mercury is used in the manufacture of skin medicine, dental amalgam, plastics, cathartics, paints, fungicides, cosmetics, and scientific instruments.
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The smell of cathartic release was palpable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, you will hear fellow theatergoers weeping all around you, the sound muffled only by that of your own cathartic sobbing.
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But such cathartic vengeance would do nothing to curb the menace of transnational terrorism.
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Songs work best as mood-enhancers in two ways: when they are about escapism and forgetting it all, and when they provide cathartic misery.
Times, Sunday Times
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However I am about to change jobs and pressing the delete button a thousand times on my PC at work has been most cathartic.
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However, don't expect a cathartic payoff, because there is little emotional messiness in this largely intellectual exercise.
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It was a cathartic moment, and a turning point.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this really appealed to me - it was a very cathartic experience.
The Sun
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The cathartic experience of venting the spleen at a match can return the supporter to the bosom of the family a calmer individual.
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Much of my storytelling and ruminations about my father have been cathartic, a new stage of grieving a loss from which I've never really recovered.
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In other words it is a highly energetic hydragogue cathartic, especially indicated when we wish to drain off the fluid element of the blood, as in dropsy, asthma, pulmonary and cerebral congestion.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Today, audiences prefer big statements, cathartic effects and emotional exhibitionism.
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Standard decontamination procedures should be followed in the conscious patient, including emesis with syrup of ipecac or gastric lavage, activated charcoal and a cathartic.
Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors
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For a couple of generations thereafter, abstract painting was either cathartically expressionist or theory-laden minimalist.
Last-Minute Reprieve
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Cathartically shrieky, it's perfect for this ghoulish time of year.
The Sun
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We inhabit a space of restless disquiet, and into that space popular culture introduces cathartic visions of disruptions, destructions, calamities, betrayals, gratifications, fulfillments and healings.
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As an expression of community solidarity, and as a cathartic public moment of defiance in the face of the threat of personal loss, it is a powerful symbol.
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I also think there is real value, cathartic release, in applying to humour to the situation and being able to openly laugh at what we once feared
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Talking to a counselor can be a cathartic experience.
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These diseases will bear thorough depletion of the alimentary canal, active, hydragogue cathartics being indicated.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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And under those circumstances, perhaps goading the world with photographs of you using a laptop as an umbrella might feel a little cathartic.
Times, Sunday Times
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We might at first imagine it as the sestina's final cathartic pinnacle.
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Is this multitasking marathon legend now less obsessive about a cathartic triumph in London?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a cathartic moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted.
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As with Greek drama, it may be emotionally cathartic but it is never soothing.
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The ridiculous screenplay offers two cathartic scenes, both of which feature characters giving lengthy soliloquies (one in front of a tombstone, another in front of a video camera).
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The most common mineral springs were salt, white, black, red, and salt sulphurs, chalybeate, vitriol, alum, copperas, iodide, and Epsom, which were used as diuretics, cathartics, and sudorifics.
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As we argue in this week's cover, the problem with populist rage — defined as the discernible public feeling that the few are unjustly profiting at the expense of the many — is that while it is cathartic, it can lead to bad decisions that may make the situation against which one is raging even worse.
The Editor’s Desk
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If you will read the literature you will find that it is referred to as a cathartic, resembling in this respect the castor bean.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920
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Gullible by nature, they are easily swayed by catchy slogans and start seeking cathartic relief in communal frenzy.
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The words, or maybe it's the gravelly voice, act as a cathartic, and the woman begins to cry.
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There is no evidence that cathartics reduce absorption or toxicity, however.
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This fungus is supposedly edible but faded forms can be confused with R. formosa, which has a strong cathartic effect when eaten.
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But fault-finding, however cathartic, does not create jobs.
Terry Newell: Putting People Back to Work: Time for Corporate America to Step Up?
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We may in time look back on this episode as one of capitalism's cathartic moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are several cathartic therapies that involve primal screaming, rebirthing, or reparenting.
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I've cried a lot while lying on that couch and find that the act of crying is a cathartic release.
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This world is thick with De Boursy-Williamses, throwing in bromides with a liberal hand, ungrudging of strychnine, happily at home with quinine and cathartics, ready at a case of simple rubeola; hideously, secretly, helplessly perplexed between the false diphtheria and the true; treating internal cancer and fibrous tumours as digestive derangements for happy, profitable years, until the specialist comes by, and dissipates with a brief examination and with half a dozen trenchant words the victim's faith in the quack.
The Dop Doctor
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This cathartic outpouring of national grief helped put to rest the notion that China lacks civic spirit.
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Participants 50 years and older with an indication for colonoscopy underwent cathartic preparation of the colon before CTC followed by regular colonoscopy.
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Hovering in the twilight zone between satire and ridicule, this medley is both entertaining and an opportunity for a cathartic laugh at troubling issues.
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Selby invests his characters with absolutely tons of emotion and empathy and hope and humanity etc. - hence why it's so devastating and cathartic when indescribably terrible things happen to them.
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These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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There is little room for ambiguity and certainly no cathartic moments.
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Nasser's 1956 triumph endured in Arab memory as a moment of cathartic liberation.
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-- The root is a hydragogue cathartic even in minute doses.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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His cheek brushed hers with a cathartic effect on her senses.
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They may take strong cathartics unadulterated to purify their bellies, such as, for instance, unripe colocynths, Thapsia garganica, and Euphorbia.
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A regimen that is nutritive and at the same time laxative is essential and in some cases cathartics and enemata are necessary.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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The play is supposed to build to a final cathartic spilling of secrets and emotions.
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Screaming and shredding are cathartic, yes, but nothing says sensitive like an acoustic guitar.
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It was cathartic from a British perspective: four winners from nine races redeemed what has otherwise been an eminently forgettable season.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever an organization makes a significant change at the top, as the Flames did this week, there is always that cathartic short-term adrenalin rush in the community - that better days are ahead and maybe even just around the corner.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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It is a powerful irritant, and is employed medicinally as a drastic and hydragogue cathartic.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. — “Neutral, indeed,” said the doctor; “so neutral, that I’ll be crucified if ever they declare either for the patient or the disease.”
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Standard decontamination procedures should be followed in the conscious patient, including emesis with syrup of ipecac or gastric lavage, activated charcoal and a cathartic.
Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors
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I applied my usual remedies for it, which consisted of colocynth and quinine; but experience has shown me that an excessive use of the same cathartic weakens its effect, and that it would be well for travellers to take with them different medicines to cause proper action in the liver, such as colocynth, calomel, resin of jalap, Epsom salts; and that no quinine should be taken until such medicines shall have prepared the system for its reception.
How I Found Livingstone
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In the book it is a cathartic moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a general way, treatment for this sort of headache consists in the use of a cathartic, such as calomel (three-fifths of a grain) at night, followed by a Seidlitz powder or a tablespoonful of Epsom salts in a glass of cold water in the morning.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)
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Secondly, I am demob-happy at the prospect of a fortnight's holiday (starting in less than two hours ' time), and am thus in no mood for cathartic purging.
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Then there are the long years in the Far East with his dependable wife Betty, and his cathartic reaction to her sudden death.
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Blatant nudity is offensive at times but being naked in the heat is a cathartic experience if done discreetly.
A trip to Puerto Angel
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A source said their exit could serve as a cathartic moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Weepies can be cleansing and cathartic because there's not much responsibility attached.
Times, Sunday Times
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But beyond the monetary considerations, her renaming ordeal has also proved emotionally cathartic.
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The decoction and infusion of this were considered emetic, and great relief was said to have been afforded by it in periodical headaches, vertigoes, etc.; one scruple of the fresh or one drachm of the dried root and leaves was employed as an emetic and cathartic.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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That earlier method of bringing the trauma to consciousness and making it discharge, the so-called cathartic method, removes only the particular group of disturbances but the patient remains a hysteric, and if ever new accidents should happen which would touch again those inmost repressed ideas, new hysterical symptoms would develop.
Psychotherapy
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Would we then defer to his expressed wishes and enact a scene of cathartic cruelty?
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Gamboge is a powerful drastic, hydragogue cathartic, which is apt to produce nausea and vomiting.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Cleansing, cathartic and just a tad annoying.
Times, Sunday Times
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These five pills given at once form an excellent hydragogue cathartic to clear the chest, relieve breathing and diminish the dropsical effusion.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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The abdominal cavity being very frequently the seat of dropsical effusion, when this takes place to any great extent, despite the continued and free use of the medicinal diuretic and the hydragogue cathartic, the surgeon is required to make an opening with the instrumental hydragogue -- viz., the trocar and cannula.
Surgical Anatomy
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The seeds contain an oil that is official in all Pharmacopoeias as one of the most powerful hydragogue cathartics.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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It was almost a cathartic experience for the fans.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were witnessing the cathartic expression of raw experience that could be the foundation of a profoundly moving work and perhaps one day it will.
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It's a cathartic moment, one that captures the cast halfway between characters and performers.
Times, Sunday Times
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For many, the experience is clearly cathartic and helps release pent-up emotions.
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In Germany the trial was an essential cathartic process crucial to post-war regeneration.
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His cheek brushed hers with a cathartic effect on her senses.
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To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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It's been a cathartic experience for all of us.
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Ca 'is the abbreviation for the word cathartic, meaning healing.
Tucson Citizen
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Forgiveness is cathartic and releases tension, revenge perpetuates and increases tension.
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This has resonated with audiences who find it cathartic - British sitcoms traditionally deal in failure, disappointment and misunderstanding.
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It was a great, great, great show, a very cathartic release.
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Gamboge is a powerful drastic, hydragogue cathartic, which is apt to produce nausea and vomiting.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Writing from personal experience is extremely cathartic.
The Sun
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Many women have spoken of variegated, deep feelings after abortion, its procedures altering a significant biological course, and to articulate these, perhaps cathartic art forms are best.
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As this relates to protests, such demonstrations may be cathartic and serve as a good theatric spectacle, but they don't reach a very wide audience and their impact is uncertain.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Outrage 2.0
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The root of the podophyllum is used as a cathartic by the
Lost in the Backwoods
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His laughter was cathartic, an animal yelp that brought tears to his eyes.
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It is a cathartic experience to embark upon openness for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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This might prove cathartic to some families.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it was having this cathartic effect, wouldn't they be moving on and writing different plays?
Times, Sunday Times
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Methods A cathartic colon animal modal was established using rhubarb and phenolphthalein in rats.
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But I don't set out to impose a cathartic experience on my readers.
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The cathartic dose of sorbitol is 20 to 50 grams.
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She has sometimes seemed addicted to confrontation, and to the cathartic effect of spilling out her anger in subsequent media interviews.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the distance of five years and newly remastered, stunning HD transfers (looking especially eye-popping on Blu-ray), Park Chan-wook's bizarre and curiously cathartic revenge trilogy, which he calls a critique of the class system, is starting to shape up as one of the last decade's major works.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Perhaps this is why the film is best seen in a crowded theatre, where the infectiousness of cathartic emotion can have full play.
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A particular description of a barman making a sandwich long ago becomes one of the most cathartic moments in theatre.
Times, Sunday Times
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I at least hope I have convinced you that my mom is a headcase and look forward to cathartically yet necessarily reviewing the insanity of my father next Saturday.
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This method of dispelling them is technically known as the cathartic method, and consists simply in a frank and full confession.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
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Since sodium phosphate is an osmotic cathartic agent, there is the risk of intravascular volume reduction due to the production of a large effluent.
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A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted.
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Activated charcoal with a cathartic should be administered.
Clonidine Overdose in Children
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Gastric lavage, emetics, activated charcoal, cathartics, etc., should be used when indicated.
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It was a cathartic moment for the young Ulsterman, who 24 hours earlier had missed a short putt on thesame green to go behind in a match against Cink and Matt Kuchar that eventually went the Americans 'way.
Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie feels the force is with Europe
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This album, a cathartic set of techno-bombastic scores, brought in a wide range of artists such as spoken word sassy girl Maggie Estep, Songs of Faith and Devotion session vocalists Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) and Hildia Cambell, and Recoil mainstay
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