A fact from Antimony potassium tartrate appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 February 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
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the article tells that the chemical compound is a strong emetic (triggers vomiting), but gives no clue how it could be effective treatment of parasitic tapeworm infection that is not in the stomack but in the urinary tract and in the bowels, and in the bloodstream, in the liver, etc. the reader is left to speculate whether it was an effective albeit dangerous treatment or it was a completely useless (and dangerous) treatment in its time. so please, if it is available, add effectiveness and mechanism of action to the article.
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