"Emesis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Persians have a most unpleasant form of treating men when dead-drunk with wine or spirits. They hang them up by the heels, as we used to do with the drowned, and stuff their mouths with human ordure which is sure to produce emesis. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... purgative effects. As a purgative, indeed, it is far less active than the croton oil, and requires to be given in much larger doses; as much as six or ten drops. It has also the bad property of exciting emesis, by which it is rejected from the stomach. On the other hand, however, it does not, like the croton oil, produce salivation, and is, on the whole, regarded by M. BALLY, especially when fresh, as a useful ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various |
