All 21 Uses of
antitoxin
in
Arrowsmith
- It furnished excellent antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus, as well as the purest of official preparations, with the plainest and most official-looking labels on the swaggeringly modest brown bottles.†
Chpt 13
- They did make excellent antitoxins and ethical preparations, but they were also producing a new "cancer remedy" manufactured from the orchid, pontifically recommended and possessing all the value of mud.†
Chpt 13
- I've got to have antitoxin.
Chpt 15 *antitoxin = medicine (an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin)
- There were the cooing ladies' husbands— college graduates, manipulators of oil stocks or of corporation law—who sat ready to give to anybody who desired it their opinion that while antitoxins might be racy, what we really needed was a good substitute for rubber.†
Chpt 27
- I want to be patriotic, but my patriotism is chasing antitoxins, doing my job, not wearing a particular kind of pants and a particular set of ideas about the Germans.†
Chpt 27
- But tonight, in detestation of such literary playboys as Brumfit, he exalted Gottlieb's long, lonely, failure-burdened effort to synthesize antitoxin, and his diabolic pleasure in disproving his own contentions as he would those of Ehrlich or Sir Almroth Wright.†
Chpt 2
- He announced that antibodies, excepting antitoxin, had no relation to the immune state of an animal, and while he himself was being ragingly denounced in the small but hectic world of scientists, he dealt calmly and most brutally with Yersin's and Marmorek's theories of sera.†
Chpt 12
- His dearest dream, now and for years of racking research, was the artificial production of antitoxin—its production in vitro.†
Chpt 12
- He produced antitoxin in the test-tube, which meant that it would be possible to immunize against certain diseases without tediously making sera by the inoculation of animals.†
Chpt 13
- He protested shakily, but as he crawled back to his laboratory it seemed impossible for him to leave this sanctuary and face the murderous brawling world, and quite as impossible to tolerate a cheapened and ineffective imitation of his antitoxin.†
Chpt 13
- He would use diphtheria antitoxin.†
Chpt 15
- He pictured Blassner driving through the night, respectfully bringing the antitoxin to The Doctor.†
Chpt 15
- It was too late for anything short of antitoxin or tracheotomy.†
Chpt 15
- He thanked the god of science for antitoxin and for the gas motor.†
Chpt 15
- But he did have diphtheria antitoxin in his shop, and sixteen minutes after Martin's escape from being killed by a train he was speeding to Henry Novak's.†
Chpt 15
- Swiftly, smoothly, he made intravenous injection of the antitoxin, and stood expectant.†
Chpt 15
- Being called to attend the little daughter of Henry Norwalk of near Delft the well-known farmer and finding the little one near death with diphtheria he made a desperate attempt to save it by himself bringing antitoxin from Blassner our ever popular druggist, who had on hand a full and fresh supply.†
Chpt 15
- When the neighborhood suddenly achieved a real epidemic of diphtheria and Martin shakily preached antitoxin, one-half of them remembered his failure to save Mary Novak and the other half clamored, "Oh, give us a rest!†
Chpt 18
- He had isolated twenty strains of staphylococcus germs and he was testing them to discover which of them was most active in producing a hemolytic, a blood-disintegrating toxin, so that he might produce an antitoxin.†
Chpt 27
- When he had obtained a satisfactory toxin, Martin began his effort to find an antitoxin.†
Chpt 27
- Once he rushed into Gottlieb's laboratory with the announcement of the antitoxin, whereupon with affection and several discomforting questions and the present of a box of real Egyptian cigarettes, Gottlieb showed him that he had not considered certain dilutions.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin