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Laxatives, diaphoretics, and diuretics must be used to stimulate the emunctories so that they may carry off the large amount of the products of decomposition which result from the stagnated effusions of anasarca.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

The elimination of the toxins is promoted by securing free action of the emunctories.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

The various emunctories or outlets of the body should, undoubtedly, be kept open and free, so that every portion of worn-out or effete matter may be effectually got rid of.

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

The intestinal canal, the skin, and the kidneys are the emunctories through which elimination must be effected.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The cods of musk are natural bags or emunctories, found near the genitals on the males of an animal named Moschus Moschiferus, or Thibet Musk.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert