Crossword-Solution: EMETICS
We have 10 clues for the answer “EMETICS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dosages for poison swallowers | 1 answer |
| Heaving shots? | 1 answer |
| Ipecac and others | 1 answer |
| Ipecac et al. | 1 answer |
| Ipecacs, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Poison antidotes | 1 answer |
| They make me wanna hurl! | 1 answer |
| They make people want to throw up | 1 answer |
| Tummy turners | 1 answer |
| Poisonous mushroom | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZACEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EMETICS (5)
That book on his table was a work on poisons; and was put down open at the place where it stated that a certain Indian poison, though deadly and difficult to trace, was particularly easily reversible by the use of the commonest emetics.
The experiments of nature made clear to him the relation of cause and effect, but it is not likely, as Pliny suggests, that he picked up his earliest knowledge from the observation of certain practices in animals, as the natural phlebotomy of the plethoric hippopotamus, or the use of emetics from the dog, or the use of enemata from the ibis.
Experience brought much of the wisdom we call empirical, and the records, extending for thousands of years, show that the Egyptians employed emetics, purgatives, enemata, diuretics, diaphoretics and even bleeding.
The treatment had been the same for Caesar as for the pope, but in addition to bleeding and emetics strange baths were added, which Caesar had himself asked for, having heard that in a similar case they had once cured Ladislaus, King of Naples.
Emetics and cathartics I shall not administer, because I am sure you do not want them; but for alteratives you must expect a great many; and I can tell you that I have a number of NOSTRUMS, which I shall communicate to nobody but yourself.
Quotes with EMETICS (1)
A sapient cat looking at humanity's salad garden buffet designed by God would not be seen as so much a paradise if the divine is seen as giving this to intelligent cats. It would be seen as quite the opposite. Since cats use plants as emetics and also lack the ability to taste sweet, Eden would be a rather hellish place. It would be a place where God might send a cat to punish the feline. This is because fruits and vegetation to eat would be a place to eat bland foods that ca…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).