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Repeat my words over a kind of medicine (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emetic

'a kind of medicine' is the definition.
(medicine which causes vomiting)

I don't understand how the remainder of the clue works.

(Other definitions for emetic that I've seen before include "It makes one sick" , "making you throw up" , "inducing sickness" , "It sickens one" , "Medicine taken to make one vomit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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