EMETIC A substance that causes vomiting
”I stirred the soup by accident with a striped maple or moose-wood stick, which I had peeled, and he [Thoreau’s Indian guide] remarked that it’s bark was an emetic.”
-Henry David Thoreau
1857, The Maine Woods
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