Emetic

On the one hand, it's always good to see someone reading – even if, as a small but painful amount of neck-craning revealed, it's The Divine (And Slightly Emetic) Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Lucy Mangan: Hi-tech or lowbrow? Lucy Mangan 2010

Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997

* Emetic A medicine or drink that makes people vomit.

Chapter 33 1993

Somebody to take Something which operated like an Emetic their Lives were saved, but their Health much impaired.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774, "The Prophet of York..." 1963

-- Emetic; warm coffee, and even an enema of coffee.

Papers on Health John Kirk

= Tartar Emetic = (tartarized antimony, potassio-tartrate of antimony) occurs as a white powder, or in yellowish-white efflorescent crystals.

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

* _Tart [arus] Emetic [um] _ (Tartar emetic) 6 oz. 1/2 lb.

Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen

Blue vitriol, Symptoms in general, Emetic with lead; none with

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

_Tartar Emetic: _ -- Take large doses of tea made of white oak bark, or peruvian bark.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

-- Emetic; stimulate and keep warm; keep patient lying down.

Papers on Health John Kirk