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7 months ago chained_bear said:

"'Surely you do not experiment on your patients, Stephen?' cried Jack.

'In course I do, just as you experiment with various sails or arrangements of sails, to see what suits a boat best. A boat does not have three mizzen topsails and a gaff written on its prow; and my patients do not have ipecacuanha tattooed on their foreheads. Of course I experiment. Experiment, forsooth.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 89

10 months ago uselessness said:

Oh, I see. Monkey Island is much more, uh, vernacular, in its description of plants. ;-)

10 months ago Minerva said:

Note to self: Never eat pancakes with uselessness. Behold the ipecac flower.

10 months ago bilby said:

Wot, you can't make this out of a flesh-eating fish and a handful of acronyms?

10 months ago uselessness said:

Nah, anyone who's ever played The Curse of Monkey Island knows that all you need to make syrup of ipecac is an ipecac flower and a bottle of maple syrup. The two combine splendidly.

10 months ago Minerva said:

Well but, Lovelace, how the deuce wilt thou, with that full health and vigour of constitution, and with that bloom in thy face, make anybody believe thou art sick?

How!-- Why take a few grains of ipecacuanha; enough to make me retch like a fury.

Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

10 months ago Minerva said:

Used to make Syrup of Ipecac.

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