On that very morning had they come for the first time under the valet's Depurating hand, so little soiled, indeed, from the turfy ride of the preceding day, that a less scrupulous domestic might, perhaps, have considered the application of "Warren's Matchless," or oxalic acid, altogether superfluous.
"Humorous Ghost Stories"
Dorothy Scarborough
They also provoked the Depurating secretions from the mouth, nose, and eyes, by repeated washings; and as those animals, in which the running was most easy and copious, seemed to be less seriously affected with the disease, they strove to increase that which flowed from the glands of the mouth by fixing a gag in the jaws, and keeping it there for several hours.
"On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment"
Honoré Bourguignon