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black draught en · NOUN
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(archaic, historical) A cathartic medicine composed of senna and magnesia.
"You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate?"
1871, George Eliot, chapter 16, in Middlemarch:He was taken ill in the night—quite prostrate he was—in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.
1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in David Copperfield:
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