Which preposition to use with aperients

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You can't have a club room without mahogany tables, you can't have mahogany tables without magazinesLongmans, with a serial by Rider Haggard, the Nineteenth Century, with an article, "The Rehabilitation of the Pimp in Modern Society," by W.E. Gladstonea dulness that's a purge to good spirits, an aperient to enthusiasm; in a word, a dulness that's worth a thousand a year.

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* * Glauber Salts are a more tonic aperient than Epsom Salts, which is accounted for by the presence of a little iron, in the one, which has not been detected in the other.

Which preposition to use with  aperients