costive

How to use costive in a sentence

• If there is fulness and pain in the head from costiveness, Bell.

  An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art | B. L. Hill

• With me much less aperient; indeed, costiveness became a very serious and distressing accompaniment.

  Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages | William Andrus Alcott

• Costiveness should be always obviated by such means as the patient finds most agreeable to himself.

  A Treatise on the Incubus, or Night-Mare, Disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams and Nocturnal Visions | John Waller

• She then complained of an enlargement of the abdomen, difficulty of breathing, particularly when lying, and costiveness.

  An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses | William Withering

• Eaten with milk, in the evening, for some time, it will often relieve costiveness.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley