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This simple arrangement for health was considered enough in those primitive times, when the human system had not been worn out and exhausted by depletive medicines.
"To carry on the medical figure," he replied, "I fear that I am to you the embodiment of the depletive system."
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Roe, Edward Payson
There is in this disease no acute congestion of a particular organ to draw off by depletive measures, nor any violent blood current to be retarded, for fear of hypernutrition of any special part.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
These stimulative and depletive medications cannot but be favourable to the animal, since it will anticipate the treatment to which he must be submitted a few days later, when the disease shall have declared itself.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
