#emetics

[gloriousrunawayanchor]

can you kill a centaur with emetics? Like, what happens to the centaur if it accidentally eats one? Horses can’t throw up; a horse would die but a human can throw up so what about a centaur? I need answers; where are my answers, coward

[puke-star]

Guys serios question! What is the best emetic?

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

Do you ever see a recipe post and think, “Damn, is this a trick to make people vomit?”

And it’s not a recipe that is inherently vile, it’s just that if you put that much of this or that ingredient in something, it literally becomes a powerful emetic. 

[molecularbiologistproblems]

Knowing your lab technique is #flawless because you're not projectile vomiting. Thanks, apomorphine! #justlabthings

[dirty-griptape]

From Riley Hawk's ig

[english-tibetan-dictionary]

emetics

dpyad thabs - knowing the means of curing [by purgatives emetics, bshal sman dang, skyug sman, sna sman, 'jam rtsi, ni ru ha, gtar kha, bleeding me btsa', moxibustion bdug lums, thur ma etc.] [IW]

[vacationreading]

the prose comes down plop, it is quite appealing

But Ben Jonson cannot squander his gold, his gold which he has never possessed; he can only squander excrement. Karl Abraham [...] "cites, in proof of the close association between sadistic and anal impulses instances in his experiences with neurotics when an explosive bowel evacuation has been a substitute for a discharge of anger or rage, or has accompanied it." Certainly Jonson seems to explode in this fashion. The directness with which he gives way to the impulse is probably another cause of his chronic unpopularity. The climax of The Poetaster is the administering of emetic pills, the effects of which take, in this case, the form of a poetic joke. The comic high point of The Alchemist comes with the locking of one of the characters in a privy, where he will be overcome by the smell. This whole malodorous side of Jonson was given its fullest and most literal expression in the poem called The Famous Voyage which was too much for even Gifford and Swinburne, in which he recounts a nocturnal expedition made by two London blades in a wherry through the roofed-over tunnel of Fleet Ditch, which was the sewer for the private privies above it. A hardly less literal letting-go is the whole play of Bartholomew Fair[...]. It is Ben Jonson's least strained and inhibited play, and one of his most successful. He drops verse for colloquial prose; he forgets about classical precedents. He dumps out upon his central group of characters [...].

-- E. Wilson, "Morose Ben Jonson"

[vacationreading]

[Pope] famously slipped Curll an emetic in a tavern and detailed the prank in a gloating pamphlet. With his characteristic ability to bounce back from humiliation, Curll later described the episode himself in The Curliad (1729), a virtuoso display of literary chutzpah written in counter-attack against The Dunciad Variorum.

Thomas Keymer, LRB