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Antidiarrheals

Miscellaneous agents found useful in the symptomatic treatment of diarrhea. They have no effect on the agent(s) that cause diarrhea, but merely alleviate the condition

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  • Scour & diarrhoea mixture : very effective for use in cases of "curding" and obstinate cases of diarrhoea in foals, calves, sheep and pigs, and also for severe cases of dysentery or flux. It warms the stomach and irritated membranes, and neutralizes all acidity of the bowels.

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    An impartial and uncontrollable account of the effects of the late Dr. William Cockburn's specific, for curing diarrhoeas, bloody fluxes, &c. since its revival, i.e. within three months past : exemplified in various cures performed by it, when all other medicines had been tried for many years together, to no purpose ... / By John Dove.

    Dove, John, active 18th century. | Date: 1751
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    Colomycin tablets in infantile gastroenteritis / Pharmax Limited.

    Pharmax Limited. | Date: [1962?]
    • Ephemera

    Colomycin tablets in infectious diarrhoea and gastroenteritis / Pharmax Limited.

    Pharmax Limited. | Date: [1960?]
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    Scour & diarrhoea mixture : very effective for use in cases of "curding" and obstinate cases of diarrhoea in foals, calves, sheep and pigs, and also for severe cases of dysentery or flux. It warms the stomach and irritated membranes, and neutralizes all acidity of the bowels.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]

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