toxicant

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Thus the local reaction and the toxical amount, are avoided.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just such a totality of symptoms has been recorded by provers after taking the fungus for some length of time in toxical quantities.

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

The leaves smell like celery or parsley, these being most toxical in summer, and the root in spring.

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

But it was soon perceived that these grievous results, far from prejudicing the theory, really confirmed it; and that the virus, attenuated in its toxical properties, would prove as effectual as was expected.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

This, when given in toxical quantities, will induce profuse sweating, and will cause asthmatic symptoms to present themselves.

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