IPECAC • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Ipecac

... a condition which has as its basis digestive disturbances, and is almost always relieved as soon as the stomach is emptied. Vomiting may be brought about by making the child swallow a small quantity of mustard stirred up in water, or by the use of ipecac. Such severe and extremely unpleasant remedies are rarely necessary, however, since the disease may be in almost all instances at once relieved by placing around the victim's throat a cloth wrung out of cold water, which may itself be covered by a dry bandage to ...

— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris