Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...says to commence work in this way: "The first thing you must attend to is your stomach. If you commence violent exercise without taking some kind of an opening medicine, you will most certainly be sick from it. I should advise as a purgative either rhubarb or podophylm, to be followed two days later with about half a bottle of citrate of magnesia. On the third day commence gentle exercise, and be sure you have on plenty of clothing, or else a cold will be the result. In fact this is the period at which you will certainly catch cold...