†(a) Scottish common salt imported from La Rochelle (obsolete); (b) the crystalline salt potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate, used as a reagent…

hydrated magnesium carbonate, a white powder used medicinally and in various chemical and manufacturing processes; = magnesia alba n. at magnesia, n.…

Any of several compounds of magnesium. (a) Hydrated magnesium carbonate, a white powder used medicinally as an antacid and laxative and in various…

= sense 3(a).

Used attributively in Seidlitz salt n. Obsolete magnesium sulphate. Seidlitz water n. Obsolete an artificial aperient water of the same composition…

Used attributively in Seidlitz salt n. Obsolete magnesium sulphate. Seidlitz water n. Obsolete an artificial aperient water of the same composition…

= Seidlitz powder n. at Seidlitz, n.

A saline purge (see A. 4a).

an almost tasteless and odourless oily liquid that consists of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum and is used as a laxative and in dressings.

A proprietary name for a laxative and antacid containing sodium bicarbonate, tartaric acid, and citric acid. Also Eno's (Fruit Salt) (also…

= liquid paraffin n. at liquid, adj. n.compounds 1.

any of various proprietary powders, typically with purgative properties, taken for the relief of symptoms attributed to the liver; usually in plural.

= liquid paraffin n.

Kruschen salts, a proprietary aperient; also elliptical. As an advertising catchphrase that Kruschen feeling, a feeling of vigorous health.