antimonial

The reason he had an antimonial cup is mostly of speculation, anything from stomach problems to scurvy.

The antimonial cup yielded the same effect.

Although there were other kinds of emetics in this time period available, many households possessed an antimonial cup of their own.

It was rumoured that overdoses from an 'antimonial cup' from Massachusetts hastened his end.

Antimonial cups were used in England and America from earlier part of the 17th century and well into the 18th century.

The family antimonial cup gathered increased powers of suggestion with years of being handed down from generation to generation.

Norris's Antimonial Drops were widely advertised in Virginia newspapers, but their content is unknown.

An antimonial cup was a small half-pint mug or cup cast in antimony popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The antimonial cup would be employed in order to facilitate repeated doses of overeating by a followup of purging.

Pentavalent antimonial compounds such as sodium stibogluconate and meglumine antimoniate are the traditional treatments for leishmaniasis.

The resurrection of the antimonial cup may have occurred because of the prohibition of antimony in 1566 by an Act of Parliament.

Frezard F, Demicheli C. New delivery strategies for the old pentavalent antimonial drugs.

The following passage from Oliver Twist, published between 1837-1839, illustrates the use of the word antimonial to mean emetic in common (as well as medical) terms:

'Avoid tea, madam,' the reader has doubtless heard him say, 'avoid tea, fried liver, antimonial wine, and bakers' bread.

After British physician John Brian Christopherson's discovery in 1918 that antimony potassium tartrate could cure schistosomiasis, the antimonial drugs became widely used.

The instructions typically were to fill the antimonial cup at 6 PM with white wine and take all the wine at 7 AM the next morning to induce vomiting.

The first pentavalent antimonial used was urea stibamine: first introduced in the 1930s, it fell out of favour in the 1950s due to higher toxicity compared to sodium stibogluconate.

Labeling for pentavalent antimony compounds (sodium stibogluconate, available in the United States through CDC, and meglumine antimoniate) states that these drugs are contraindicated for use among pregnant women, although various antimonial compounds were not teratogenic among chickens, rats, or sheep (1330-1332).

The Indian medical practitioner, Upendra Nath Brahmachari, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for his discovery of ureastibamine (an antimonial compound for the treatment of kala-azar) and a new disease, post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis.