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Examples
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Perhaps he should try the sleeping pills again, even though it meant that dreadful stomach-pump business.
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For cases of urticaria, I could recommend taking 3 grains of tartar-emetic; but then a stomach-pump would answer the purpose as well.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Perhaps he should try the sleeping pills again, even though it meant that dreadful stomach-pump business.
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Treatment consists of stomach-pump or emetics, stimulants freely, artificial respiration, warmth and friction to the surface of the body.
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_ -- The stomach-pump, emetics, then milk, milk and eggs, oil and lime-water.
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If vomiting cannot be produced, the stomach-pump should be used.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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It is of especial value where the absorbents have carried the excess beyond the reach of an emetic, any time, indeed, within fifteen or twenty hours after the overdose, when sulphate of zinc and the stomach-pump have failed to bring the poison.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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He subjected the man to the stomach-pump and hot baths.
The Seventh Noon Frederick Orin Bartlett
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_ -- Emetics or stomach-pump if the patient is deeply anæsthetized.
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_ -- Early use of stomach-pump and emetics, followed by the administration of permanganate of potassium or peroxide of hydrogen to oxidize the phosphorus.
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