ipecac

• “Made piles of money with Faith No More, used it to start his own record label ipecac and make weird stuff to his liking.”

  Whom Do You Want to Hear From? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Of course, one reader's warm milk is another reader's ipecac, which is why the Bear Lake County (Idaho) Library's "squeaky clean book list" hedges: "depending somewhat on your definition of clean.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Gentle Reads and Cozy Mysteries

• “_Cinchona_ supplies us with quinine, while _Ipecacuanha_ produces ipecac, which is an emetic and purgative.”

  All About Coffee

• “-- If heart-burn is attended with sickness at the stomach and a constant hawking up of a tough phlegm, it will be necessary to cleanse the stomach with a gentle emetic, such as ipecac or indian physic.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “(Carter Papers: An Inventory .... ") [86] Given Carter's inventive and phonetic spelling, it is difficult to know what this word may be, but" ipecac "seems most likely as it is an emetic that had come into use in the previous century; it fits the context.”

  Robert Carter Diary, 1726

• “Both ipecac-induced emesis and emesis from insertion of a lavage tube can increase the risk of aspiration.”

  Hydrocarbon Ingestion

• “We are aware that syrup of ipecac has been utilized; however, its safety and efficacy in this situation remains to be documented.”

  Fish poisonings and envenomations

• “Standard decontamination procedures should be followed in the conscious patient, including emesis with syrup of ipecac or gastric lavage, activated charcoal and a cathartic.”

  Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors

• “A dozen Tylenol PM, enough to knock her out and send her to the ER, administer ipecac and the Olympic sport of hurling.”

  Fictionaut: The Woman Down the Hall

• “According to the unnamed paper, The demonstration took a bizarre turn when twenty-four young people wearing ill-fitting suits and ties lined up on Sixth Avenue, swigging vinegar, syrup of ipecac, and food coloring, and vomited red, white, and green.”

  Malcolm on the mall (Jack Bog's Blog)

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