Poisons Used For Medical Purposes

Poison as Medicine | American Museum of Natural History

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Of course, nature’s poisons have been used for medicinal purposes for millennia. Small doses of opium, mandrake, henbane, and hemlock numbed the pain of surgery for more than 1,000 years. All parts …

Poisoning: First aid - Mayo Clinic

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By Mayo Clinic Staff. Poisoning is injury or death due to swallowing, inhaling, touching or injecting various drugs, chemicals, venoms or gases. Many …

5 Deadly Poisons That Double As Medicine - Medical Daily

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Poison for Good: Toxins and Venoms as Treatment | AMNH

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From these plant toxins, chemists have extracted many useful drugs. Sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) is the source of a widely used malaria treatment. Foxglove (Digitalis lanata) has long been used to treat for …

5 Medicines Derived From Poisons | Discover Magazine

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Botox. Botox has a variety of medicinal uses. As a toxin produced by the bacterium …

From poison to potion: Toxins turned into life-saving …

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List of Poisons and the Relative Toxicity of Chemicals

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10 Poisons Used To Save Lives - Listverse

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Because of its extremely important use in medicine, this poison is a core medicine in the World Health Organization’s “Essential Drugs List”, which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health …

Types of common and dangerous poisons | Poison Control

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The most common poisons in adults pain medicine sedatives, hypnotics, antipsychotics antidepressants cardiovascular drugs cleaning substanc es (household) alcohols pesticides bites and envenomations ( ticks, spiders, …

10 Poisons Used To Kill People - Listverse

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Here is a list of the most famous poisons used to kill people throughout history. SEE ALSO: 10 Foods We Eat That May Lead To Poisoning Or Death. 10 Hemlock. Hemlock or Conium is a highly toxic …