Acronyms that contain the term cathartick 

Cathartical, Cathartick(adj.)

Purging medicines. The vermicular or peristaltick motion of the guts continually helps on their contents, from the pylorus to the rectum; and every irritation either quickens that motion in its natural order, or occasions some little inversions in it. In both, what but slightly adheres to the coats, will be loosened, and they will be more agitated, and thus rendered more fluid. By this only it is manifest, how a cathartic hastens and increases the discharges by stool; but where the force of the stimulus is great, all the appendages of the bowels, and all the viscera in the abdomen, will be twitched; by which a great deal will be drained back into the intestines, and made a part of what they discharge. John Quincy

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