Ipecac Quotes & Sayings

This lasted longer than I could describe even if I wrote pages and pages about it. — C.S. Lewis

Dr Stewart Wolf took the placebo effect to the limit. He took two women who were suffering with nausea and vomiting, one of them pregnant, and told them he had a treatment which would improve their symptoms. In fact he passed a tube down into their stomachs (so that they wouldn't taste the revolting bitterness) and administered ipecac, a drug that which should actually induce nausea and vomiting. Not only did the patients' symptoms improve, but their gastric contractions - which ipecac should worsen - were reduced. His results suggest - albeit it in a very small sample - that a drug could be made to have the opposite effect to what you would predict from the pharmacology, simply by manipulating people's expectations. In this case, the placebo effect outgunned even the pharmacological influences. More — Ben Goldacre

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance. — Oswald Chambers

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine. — Marv Levy

I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times ... in a way that's completely consistent with ... the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in. — Elena Kagan

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director. — Cam Gigandet

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor. — John Ruskin

Paradox simply means a certain defiant joy which belongs to belief. — G.K. Chesterton

Ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow. — Karen Joy Fowler

What goes for sex goes double for politics. — Kate Clinton

Sweet like syrup of ipecac, she leaves my system with my guts in her hands. — Merri Lisa Johnson