antidotal
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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
Its discontinuance was rendered rather necessary by my enthusiasm that led too far in a few cases, but the antidotal effects of certain remedies amply compensated me for my financial and reputational loss.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Sir Thomas Brown was not prepared to contradict it: he says, that "Lapis Lasuli hath in it a purgative faculty, we know: that Bezoar is antidotal, Lapis Judaicus diuretical, Coral antipileptical, we will not deny."
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
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 Philip Henry Gosse
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
