Word: vomitive
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...arrived, the boy was apparently dead. His skin was blue-white, his pupils were widely dilated, and though the policeman who had hauled him from the water had made an attempt at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Roger had not responded because his mouth and windpipe were clogged with vomit. Worst of all, the Nidelven is a fresh-water river. And fresh water, when inhaled into the lungs, does far more damage than salt: it evidently dilutes the blood, breaks down red cells, overfills the heart, destroys the body's balance of sodium and potassium salts, and usually causes...
...frothy blood. Dr. Kvittingen and Dr. Arne Naess concluded that his blood had been so damaged and diluted that they had to replace it all by transfusion. They cut a hole in Roger's neck to pass a tube down his windpipe, and through this they extracted more vomit. The boy's kidneys were not working. He received a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs. He had to be fed intravenously for a week...
When Robert's parents learn of this bit of exhibitionism, he is whisked back home. When his pals down South start stuffing a hungry cat with food to watch it vomit, Robert beats them up. He knows what it is to be killed with kindness...
...state authorities for Reclamation Treatment. Under drugs and with his eyelids clipped open, he is forced to watch an endless succession of films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov's dog, Alex is released on society, guaranteed to vomit at the sight of violence or the sound of Beethoven. As one of his brainwashing group observes, "He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice." The experiment fails when Alex goes into a frenzy after hearing some Mozart, leaps from a window...
...Hallucinations, a surgeon operated on the brain of his wife's lover, pinching here, clamping there, until he had turned the fellow utterly mad. The patient then got up off the table and drove a chisel through the doctor's forehead. Audiences used to faint, shriek, and vomit in the alley outside the theater. One night the house doctor was summoned to the aid of a fallen customer, but the doctor himself had collapsed...