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Chapter IV. Agents used as hydragogue cathartics.

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  3. Group V. Agents acting upon the intestinal glandular organs and upon the intestinal canal.

The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1919, was written by Finley Ellingwood, M.D.

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