Death was preferable to Dunn's Emetics.
"Amusement Only"
Richard Marsh
Further, the medical treatment, so far as it made any pretension to methods of cure, was either purely empirical, or founded upon the one notion that descended from generation to generation from the earliest antiquity-that there was an excess of bile in the blood, and that it must be expelled by Emetics or purgatives.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
It was a very obstinate case, but by dint of mustard Emetics, warm fomentations, mustard plasters on the stomach and the back, and calomel, at first in large then in gradually smaller doses, I succeeded in saving my first cholera patient in Cruces.
"Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"
Mary Seacole Commentator: W. H. Russell