According to Wood, the maximum doses from which recovery has occurred without emesis are 55 grains of solid opium, and six ounces of laudanum.
There is recorded an instance of a woman who took about an ounce, and, emesis being produced three-quarters of an hour afterward by mustard, she finally recovered.
When no emesis can be obtained the prognosis is decidedly bad.
Teaspoonful after every act of emesisin iced Seltzer or Apollinaris water, or in champagne.
The acts of emesis are sudden and short in duration.
Emesis occurring at a late stage of the summer complaint is often due to commencing spurious hydrocephalus, which is not an infrequent complication, as we will see, of protracted cases.
The most effective of the remedies of this kind is ipecacuanha, given in purgative doses: the emesis induced by it favors the extrusion of the stone, and the powerful cholagogue effect relieves the portal congestion.
Finally, Hippocrates recognized the effects of emesis in relief of the disease with the remark in one of his aphorisms that a spontaneous vomiting cures dysentery.
The emesis may recur so often at night as to cause exhaustion from insomnia.
Emesis and Purgation: when due to indigestible food.
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