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A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.

A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.

A woman holding a man's head while he is sick into a bowl. Coloured lithograph.

A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching after J. Gillray after J. Sneyd.

A doctor waiting for his patient to vomit after administering an emetic. Coloured aquatint by G.M. Woodward, 1800.

A sick old woman seated between two doctors each prescribing different medication; representing Wellington's and Russell's opposing political views. Coloured etching, 1831.

A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

On gout ; its history, its causes, and its cure. / By William Gairdner.

Nature and effects of emetics, purgatives, mercurials, and low diet, in disorders of Bengal and similar latitudes / by John Peter Wade.

Thesis inauguralis de nauseosi, et modo ejus administrationis in phthisi curanda ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Alexander Crigan.

An experimental investigation of the physiological action of saline cathartics / by Matthew Hay.

Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de actione et usu emeticorum ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Wood.

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On gout ; its history, its causes, and its cure. / By William Gairdner.

Nature and effects of emetics, purgatives, mercurials, and low diet, in disorders of Bengal and similar latitudes / by John Peter Wade.

Thesis inauguralis de nauseosi, et modo ejus administrationis in phthisi curanda ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Alexander Crigan.

An experimental investigation of the physiological action of saline cathartics / by Matthew Hay.

Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de actione et usu emeticorum ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Wood.