tartar emetic

American  

noun

Chemistry, Pharmacology.

1. a white, water-soluble, sweet and metallic-tasting, poisonous powder or granules, C 4 H 4 KO 7 Sb, used as a mordant for dyeing textiles and leather, and in medicine as an expectorant, for inducing vomiting, and for infections by schistosomes.

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tartar emetic British  

noun

1. another name for antimony potassium tartrate

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Etymology

Origin of tartar emetic

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

In those days, the only available cure was tartar emetic, a compound of antimony that was administered as 12–16 injections given once a week.

From Nature • Nov. 7, 2017

Last week, although the standard tartar emetic treatment* had rid him of most of his flukes, he noted that: "There is still no time, day or night, when I am not in pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

In order to lure the flukes out of their customary lairs in the intestinal veins, they give patients a single injection of tartar emetic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within two years a more hardy variety of thrips appeared and tartar emetic ceased to work.

From Time Magazine Archive

The antimonial preparations that are now most in use are antimonial wine and tartar emetic.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph