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- noun Plural form of
vomitive .
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Examples
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Bohun, in the seventeenth-century tradition of treatment by clysters, vomitives, and phlebotomy, resorted to bloodletting.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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Perhaps the most damaging and galling satire of the century flowed from the pen of the French dramatist, Molière, who had a medical student -- not completely fictitious -- swear always to accept the pronouncements of his oldest physician-colleague, and always to treat by purgation, using clysters (enemas), phlebotomy (bloodletting), and emetics (vomitives).
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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The doctors operated upon him as best they knew, with leeches and phlebotomy and purgatives and vomitives, and came very near killing him.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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When’s that grandnational goldcapped dupsydurby houspill coming with its vomitives for our mothers-inload and stretchers for their devitalised males?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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