Antidotes Sentence Examples

The oxide and carbonate of magnesium are also invaluable as antidotes, since they form insoluble compounds with oxalic acid and salts of mercury, arsenic, and copper.

In these cases lime-water, alkalis and magnesia should be used as antidotes, and opium may be required.

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

The toxins produced by microbes, if too weak to destroy the leucocytes, induce them to secrete antitoxins, which not only act as antidotes to the toxins and are injurious to the microbes, but also increase the phagocytic power of the leucocytes (opsonius of Wright).

The antagonism between certain drugs has been much studied in relation to their use as antidotes in poisoning, the aim being to counteract the effects rather than to obtain a direct physiological antagonistic action.

The antidotes are mild alkalis, together with the use of opium to relieve pain.

The other, Alexipharmaca, consists of 630 hexameters treating of poisons and their antidotes.

Chloral and potassium bromide may be given as physiological antidotes.

Nerve agents are powerful; they require powerful antidotes to keep the victim alive.

With their age-old recipe of clean sea, fresh air and clear light, the islands are the ultimate, natural antidotes to stress.

There are also antidotes for specific poisonous gases in the blood; dosage is dependent upon the level indicated by blood tests.

Perfect to wear when padding around the house, these shoes are the cozy antidotes to a chilly winter day.

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For some of these, as redwater (pyrosoma), antidotes are already found; for others, as for Texas fever - of which the parasite is unknown, but the mode of its transmission, by the mosquito, discovered (Finlay-Reed) - preventive measures are reducing the prevalence.

The concretions known as bezoar-stones, formerly much used in medicine and as antidotes of poison, are obtained from the stomach of the wild goat.

The physiological as well as the chemical antidotes must be employed.

Old turpentine and French oil of turpentine are antidotes to phosphorus, forming turpentine-phosphoric acid, which is inert.

Toxicology-The branch of medical pharmacology dealing with the detection, effects, and antidotes of poisons.

The treatment is to empty the stomach by tube or by a non-depressant emetic. The physiological antidotes are atropine and digitalin or strophanthin, which should be injected subcutaneously in maximal doses.

The use of chemical antidotes, such as iron salts, is futile, as the drug has escaped into the blood from the stomach long before they can be administered.

The antidotes for oxalic acid poisoning are milk of lime, chalk, whiting, or even wall-plaster, followed by evacuation brought about by an enema or castor oil.