superpurgationn.
/ˌsuːpəpəːˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsupərpərˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ Medicine. Now historical.
Excessive or violent purgation (purgation n. 4a), often as brought about by drugs; an instance of this; = hypercatharsis n.
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1578 T. Twyne tr. P. Drouet New Counsell against Pestilence sig. G.yiv Good heede must be taken, least being delighted with ye sweetnesse of the meate, there be too many eaten of them, for then they wyll cause a superpurgation.
1648 R. Baillie Let. 26 June (1842) III. 46 I was forced to keep my chamber ten days with a dangerous superpurgation.
1684 C. Goodall Royal Coll. Physicians 333 Several fresh complaints were made against him ob malam praxin, as his prescribing purging Physick, which occasioned superpurgation and the Patient's death.
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 274 These two doses..might cause a superpurgation.
1837 Lancet 24 June 461/2 In Somersetshire the rural classes make use of a decoction [of digitalis] for those who labour under febrile diseases, and..they excite purgation, superpurgation, and vomitting, by its use.
1845 W. C. Spooner Vet. Art (1851) 58 Superpurgation from actual inflammation is extremely dangerous.
1916 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Med. 11 318/1 The intestinal irritation resulting from superpurgation, sometimes (not often) causes laminitis.
2007 T. H. J. Pettigrew Shakespeare & Pract. Physic iv. 100 Whether Heywood is thinking of superpurgation, or poison, or simply ineffective remedies, the point remains the same. Apothecaries kill.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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