I have to get a colonoscopy next week. I was just reading the directions: 7:00 PM — Mix the entire bottle of MiraLAX in 62 ounces of a cl...

But as this 1950s ad from Ex-Lax shows, there is a way! "No wonder of the fellers in our crowd take Ex-Lax!"

This laxative ad is from the September, 1941 issue of LIFE magazine. I love the copy on item 2: " Saraka [the laxative] forms a soft...

Up until about 1750, people who were "plugged up" drank Castor oil . That was the name of a liquid laxative that was extracted fro...