antidotal
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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
The woods might have been filled with antidotal remedies, and I have died in their midst.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
Calomel also, which was occasionally resorted to formerly for its antiphlogistic effects upon the intestinal lesions, has been lately recommended in Germany in the treatment of typhoid fever on account of its supposed antidotal properties.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Percival concludes, not unreasonably, that during its absence, it had found the antidotal herb, and eaten of it.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry
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
