"Tragedy," he says, "is an imitation of an action ... through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions."

Observe, it is not to the lessons of the "master", but to the creation and destruction that went on at Haworth that she attributes this purgation.

The administration of aloes in this case is extremely apt to induce a fatal super-purgation.

Lastly, he is such a juggler with urinals, so dangerously unskilful, that if ever the city will have recourse to him for diseases that need purgation, let them employ him in scouring Moorditch.

They are accounted carminative, aperient, emollient, and in some measure anodyne: and stand recommended in flatulent colics, for promoting the uterine purgations, in spasmodic affections, and the pains of women in child-bed: sometimes they have been employed in intermittent fevers, and the nephritis.

By Duke Cosimo's recent enactment, such an occurrence was counted as a criminal offence, which required purgation by the payment of a heavy fine, failure to pay being punished by sentence of death.