Some poisons disturb one organ more and some another, but in the end the whole body must be affected.
The kidneys strain out urea, uric acid, and certain other poisons from the blood and eject them through the urinary tract.
Without denying that at some date famous cities were there burnt up by lightning, I am yet inclined to think that it is the exhalation from the lake which infects the soil and poisons the surrounding atmosphere.
This last is a lake of immense size, like a sea, though its water has a foul taste and a most unhealthy smell, which poisons the surrounding inhabitants.
One writer even holds that salt poisons the blood.
But many poisons are employed as medicines; do we ever dream of employing them as food?
It would appear as if the reagents which act as poisons produced some kind of molecular arrest.
It must, however, be remembered that there are again specific poisons which may affect one kind of tissue and not others.
Poisons in general may be regarded as extreme cases of depressants.
Similarly, various poisons have the effect of permanently abolishing all response.
This insect floating in the air, is taken with the breath into the lungs, and there it eitherpoisons or propagates its kind, so as to produce that dreadful disease.
But the ingenuity of poverty, assuredly the most active of all poisons at work in the system of man (id est the Parisian), an ingenuity that would catch Satan himself napping, has failed so far to discover a way to obtain a hat on credit!
And when, like hundreds more, he has squandered his genius in the service of others who find the capital and do no work, those dealers in poisons will leave him to starve if he is thirsty, and to die of thirst if he is starving.
All vanity of that sort is a symptom of shocking egoism, and egoism poisons friendship.
Who poisons confidence, he murders The future generations.
After all, secrets for bug-poisons ain't worth much, for all depends upon the application of them.
Concerning Bugs and Fleas, and the trade carried on in the manufacture and vending of poisons to destroy these pests, we learn from him: The vending of bug-poison in the London streets is seldom followed as a regular source of living.
All the poisons that I have mentioned are related to it in some way, I believe.
Besides, as you perhaps have read, they have some queer poisons down in South America.
I've looked for all the ordinary knownpoisons and some of the little-known alkaloids, but, Kennedy, I always get back to the same point.
The harmfulpoisons and Ptomains which they produce are re-absorbed by the blood and poison the whole system.
The crying need, however, in these extensive acute infections is rapid antibody formation to neutralize these germ-produced poisons and to eliminate the germs.
This is due partly to the peculiar resistance of rodents to poisons and partly to the great importance of the rate of absorption.
It would be well to have a list of the more commonpoisons and their antidotes attached to the First Aid Kit, but do not trust to the memory.
When the poison taken has been acid, the antidote should be an alkali, but different poisons require different antidotes, and it would be unwise to trust to one's memory as to the proper one to take in each case.
But in bad cases it will be necessary to resort to gas-lime, which poisons the pupæ and eventually benefits the soil, although in the season immediately following its use crops may be less satisfactory than usual.
The injury to vegetation is as great as that inflicted on our own health when dirt poisons the air and damp hastens the general dissolution.
It would be absurd, indeed, to suppose a kind of glass qualified to expose all poisons indifferently, considering the vast range of their chemical differences.
Structures not unlike these have been artificially induced by exposure to particular lights, and also by painting spots with dilute corrosive sublimate, indicating that poisons may impel the epidermis cells to grow out abnormally.
Now we know at least one parasitic fungus which poisonsthe cells of its host, and kills them, with similar symptoms to those resulting from excessive doses of the above-named toxic agents.
In America orchard trees infested with insects or fungi have been covered one by one with light tents, and the vapours of prussic acid, burning sulphur, and other poisons allowed to act inside the tent.
It may produce chemical substances which act as poisons to the micro-organism, either paralysing it or actually killing it.
In poisons by carbonic gas, remove the patient to open air, dash cold water on the head and body, and stimulate nostrils and lungs by hartshorn, at the same time rubbing the chest briskly.
Bright green colors are dangerous when first put on, because poisons are used in the coloring matter.
He baits his patient's body with his medicines, as a rat-catcher does a room, and either poisons the disease or him.
The inevitable necessity of God's counsel makes him desperately careless; so with good food he poisons himself.
All the Poisons of this Class prove mortal rather from a narcotic, or stupefying, than from an acrid, or very sharp Quality.
It may be remarked that the ergot fungus frequently grows on this grain, and when ground up with it occasionally poisons the consumer where the quantity of the substance is large and the bread is eaten in considerable quantities.
With decomposed breads we take the poisons that produce pellagra, kak-ke, ergotism and acrodinia.
The lime in no wise poisons the edible parts; it simply affects the eyes and gills, covering them with a fine white film.
This is a wholesale and cowardly method, as it frequently poisons the fish for miles down stream; it not only kills the larger fish, but destroys great quantities of immature ones which are wholly unfit for food.
And it is to be feared that there are but too few men or women either who have not some Rutherford- like memory behind them that still clouds their now sheltered life and secretly poisons their good conscience.
And, then, how party spirit poisons our best enjoyments as it did Rutherford's.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poisons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
