Diphtheria antitoxin, for instance, the first and best known triumph of the new medicine, is the antidotal substance formed in the blood of a horse in response to a succession of increasing doses of the bacilli of diphtheria.
There can be no doubt, therefore, of the antidotal value of atropine for poisoning by Amanita muscaria.
The antidotal value of atropine is very slight, if indeed it has any action other than removing the temporary cardiac inhibition.
Experiments were also made with chloroform, morphine, and many other substances, but none seemed to exercise any true antidotal effect.
The likelihood is that whatever virtue the red clover can boast for counteracting a scrofulous disposition, and as antidotalto cancer, resides in its highly-elaborated lime, silica, and other earthy salts.
Apis is not sufficient to prevent the recurrence of such inflammatory attacks; this object has to be accomplished by means of the appropriate antidotal specific.
Evidently an important point to be considered in the antidotaltreatment of locoed animals with sulphates is the possibility of inducing a gastritis, with its attendant loss of weight.
In Storer's experiments on feeding rats with barium carbonate it was found that the barium carbonate would kill them, but if calcium carbonate was mixed with the barium the rats survived, suggesting anantidotal action.
It is a question whether the so-called antiseptics can, on account of their toxic properties, be used with safety in doses sufficiently large to be antidotal to the specific principle of any of the infectious maladies.
Footnote 3: Serpentaria derives its name from its supposed antidotal properties, and guaco and Aristolochia India enjoyed widely heralded but rapidly fleeting popularity in the two Indias for a season.
Regarding the antidotal power of bile on the toxines of disease, Professor Fraser found that the bile of venomous serpents had more antidotal power than that of the majority of the other animals examined.
It is curious that among the non-venomous animals the rabbit's bile is the most powerful in antidotal properties.
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