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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.

From Slate Dec. 14, 2014

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.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

The scrofula to which the Water-cress and its allied plants are antidotal, got its name from scrofa, "a burrowing pig," signifying the radical destruction of important glands in the body by this undermining constitutional disease.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Your letters would be antidotal, and thus, by a sort of mental allopathy, beneficial.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer

With antidotal efficacy, it nullifies the virus of proscription so that it does not stagnate the blood nor paralyze the limb of an up-treading and on-going race.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore




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