a. and sb. [ad. Gr. ἐκκοπρωτικός, f. ἐκκοπρόω, f. ἐκ out + κόπρος dung.]
A. adj. Producing evacuation of the bowels; mildly purgative. B. sb. A mild aperient.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physic, 231. It must be brought forth with diureticks … or with Eccoproticks.
1782. W. Heberden, Comm., xx. (1806), 106. Eccoprotics used occasionally, so as just to prevent costiveness.
1827. Abernethy, Surg. Wks., I. 106, note. He prescribes purgative medicines to act as eccoprotics, to excite but not to stimulate the bowels.
