Purging
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
purging · hellebore purge · hypercatharsis · purge
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Aphorisms
A named therapeutic evacuation procedure discussed with timing, diagnostic, and risk rules
Convulsion upon severe purging is mortal.
In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not a good symptom.
and if you wish to dispose it to evacuations upward, you must bind the belly;
De diaeta acutorum
The therapeutic evacuation of the body via drugs (notably hellebore), governed by strict rules about timing and patient suitability.
purge none of such persons;
One must give hellebore to those from whose head a flux is borne;
But if it seem good to purge, purge upward safely with hellebore;