"Aperient" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lady who is nursing is habitually costive, she ought to eat brown instead of white bread. This will, in the majority of cases, enable her to do without an aperient. The brown bread may be made with flour finely ground all one way; or by mixing one part of bran and three parts of fine wheaten flour together, and then making it in the usual way into bread. Treacle instead of butter, on the brown bread increases its efficacy as an aperient; ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols |
