Toxicology Poisons and Alcohol

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All Substances Are Poisons … It All Depends on the Dose ? Substances that are potentially lethal may also have a useful medical use. At the therapeutic level, the substance is useful for treatin... g illnesses ? Below a certain dosage, the substance will have no effect. ? Above this level, the substance may cause death.Curare Defined in a medical dictionary as “… adried aqueous extract from the vine Strychnos toxifera, and other plants, used in arrow poisons by South American Indians,and in medicine to produce muscle relaxation.Botulin  Produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum  One of the most poisonous neurotoxins known to man kind.  Used in BOTOX cosmetic therapy. [Show More]

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