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 knowledg of these antidotal Herbs they have learned from the Mounggoutia a kind of Ferret.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

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

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