Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to deplete; depletive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to deplete.
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- adjective Serving to
deplete .
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Examples
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Bark and its various preparations, especially the sulphate of quinine, with the occasional use of warm aperients (sedulously avoiding the more violent purgatives), will be found eminently successful; whereas, cupping at the nape of the neck (which I have seen prescribed for the headache), and other depletory measures, have proved as manifestly injurious.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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Leeches were applied to the head, and other depletory measures actively employed, which were followed by recovery.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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The treatment of Meningitis arising from protracted suckling will not differ from what is proper when it has been produced by other causes; except that the depletory measures should not be carried to so great an extent, as it must be remembered that the disease is existing in constitutions _already debilitated_.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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Page 126 purgative should be administered, for the purpose of removing all offending matters, and of restoring the secretions, but not with reference to its depletory effects.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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