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Definition of Antidotes
1. antidote [v] - See also: antidote
Medical Definition of Antidotes
1. Agents counteracting or neutralizing the action of poisons. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antidotes
Literary usage of Antidotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Materia Medica for Nurses by Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1921)
"A TABLE OF POISONS, THEIR antidotes AND ANTAGONISTS antidotes act upon the poisons
... and may be used after its absorption, when antidotes are too late. ..."
2. A Manual of materia medica and pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"POISONS—TREATMENT AND antidotes. POISONING may be of two kinds: 1. ... These are
called antidotes, and may be: (1) mechanical, which simply protect the ..."
3. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"An experienced physician, who has long studied the doctrine of antidotes against
all sorts of poison and infection, has, after forty years' practice, ..."
4. A Text-book of pharmacology and some allied sciences: (therapeutics, Materia by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1906)
"CHEMIC antidotes. Explanatory.— One of the first objects in treating a case ...
Consult Exercises 18 C and 29 for t!ie application of antidotes to animals. ..."
5. The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal by Medical College of Georgia (1845)
"As antidotes for copper.—A mixture of zinc and iron filings; iron reduced ...
As to the manner of administering these antidotes, and the doses which it is ..."
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