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tartar emetic
noun
, Chemistry, Pharmacology.
- a white, water-soluble, sweet and metallic-tasting, poisonous powder or granules, C 4 H 4 KO 7 Sb, used as a mordant for dyeing textiles and leather, and in medicine as an expectorant, for inducing vomiting, and for infections by schistosomes.
tartar emetic
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tartar emetic1
First recorded in 1695–1705
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Example Sentences
The antimonial preparations that are now most in use are antimonial wine and tartar emetic.
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Dressed it with tartar-emetic ointment until the skin was very sore; using iodine on other puts of the knee.
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Early the next morning a bottle of whiskey, having tartar emetic in it, was placed in the bower, and the other bottle thrown away.
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When Tartar Emetic is given in small doses, its only apparent action is slightly to increase the perspiration.
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It is probable that a diaphoretic dose of Tartar Emetic is actually eliminated from the skin and mucous membranes.
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