John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions that first brought John to my care.
"How and When to Be Your Own Doctor"
Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
These few words of March's served, I think, in the troubled, turbid emotional relation she had got into with her father, as a clarifying precipitant.
"Mary Wollaston"
Henry Kitchell Webster
However, the appearance of the new arrival greatly modified the unfavorable impression produced by his precipitant action.
"The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar"
Maurice Leblanc