Good Weather. This afternoon took a Vomit of Tartar Emet. and Turbith mineral,1 that worked 7 Times, and wrecked me much.
1. Turpeth, turbith: “A cathartic drug prepared from the root of East Indian jalap, Ipomoea Turpethum”(OED description begins The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement. description ends ).
“14 Saturday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-01-02-0002-0002-0014. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 1, 1755–1770, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 7.]