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Even Louis-Ferdinand C�line's vomitive delineation of the Paris slums could not bring more repulsive social maggots into focus than those fixed by Orwell's baleful lens.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the opinion of the Reverend John Clayton, Virginia doctors were so prone to associate all drugs with vomiting or other forms of purging that they even thought of aromatic spirits as an inferior "vomitive."

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor