Word: vomitive
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...marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer the same...
Five Chicago chemists disturbed the case with cries of "Hoax!" But the next night 17 families on one block reported that they had been gassed. Victims continued to say the mysterious substance made them vomit and sometimes affected the use of arms & legs...
...striking contrast to the actions of a company back in 1937 [S. E. Massengill] when a defective sulfanilamide made by it was permitted to cause more than 100 deaths because proper public warning was not given. I suppose anything which causes infants to vomit is dangerous but so far we've had no reports of serious results." The consensus of the publicity-wise was in agreement with Dr. Dunbar - Centaur's costly action in its nightmarish plight may turn out to be excellent advertising in the long...
...There is no special treatment for alcoholism. Some passionate or sociable drunkards can be weaned by a psychiatrist. Some become religious converts, join revival and temperance groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, a proselytizing fellowship of 6,000 ex-alcoholics. Others can be conditioned to vomit at the mere sight of liquor (TIME, April...
...drunkard can be made to vomit every time he takes a drink, he has a better than even chance of curing himself −at least for a long time −of drunkenness. This nauseous conclusion was published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences last week, by Drs. Walter Lyle Voegtlin, Frederick Lemere, and colleagues of Seattle's Shadel Sanitarium, who carried out conditioning experiments with 827 alcoholics during the last five years...