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Persons afflicted with headache should beware of costiveness: their drink should be diluting, and their feet and legs kept warm.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

I returned home to my friends at the close of the term well, and have been well ever since—have never had a colic pain or any costiveness since that time.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

It was not till winter—sometimes almost spring—that his health appeared to suffer as the consequence of his costiveness.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

The costiveness may be marked at first, but soon it gives place to diarrhea, by which the offensive matters may be carried off and health restored.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

It is well known that those who have been in the habits of free living, and who come suddenly to a more temperate diet, are very much disposed to costiveness.

From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John