emetics in English

noun
1
a medicine or other substance that causes vomiting.
Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics , and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative.

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1. Synonyms for Aperients include laxatives, purgatives, cathartics, purges, eccoprotics, emetics, evacuants, lenitives, physic and enemas

2. Stop therapy if side-effects are severe and seek medical assistance Give prescribed anti-emetics.

3. Allopaths offered ‘heroic’ therapy treating patients with bloodletting, blistering, purging and emetics, essentially treating symptoms with harsh deadly compounds; the theory was to effect an

4. Dyspepsia may commence and proceed so insidiously as not to excite the suspicion of friends, although the patient generally desires active treatment, such as Cathartics, emetics, and medicines to act upon the liver.

5. Antiemetics, sometimes spelled anti-emetics, refer to many different medications that can either reduce nausea or stop people from throwing up.They come in a variety of strengths and drug types and they have many different uses.

6. ‘There is no evidence that Cathartics reduce absorption or toxicity, however.’ ‘Gastric lavage, emetics, activated charcoal, Cathartics, etc., should be used when indicated.’ ‘Gastrointestinal decontamination with activated charcoal and a cathartic may be useful in acute exposures if the drug was taken orally within the previous 60

7. Chained_bear commented on the word Chalybeate "He glanced at the measures recommended: diet low but not too low, bleeding of course, cupping, saline purgatives, emetics, camphorated vinegar, the strait waistcoat, blistering the head, Chalybeate waters, the cold bath; and closed the book."--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 281