 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1982 - 850 pages
...human toxicology, is entirely appropriate to the question of acid rain and forest nutrient status: 'All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison; the right dosage differentiates a poison from a remedy" (Paracelsus, 1493-1541). - 5 STATEMENT BY OR. ORIE L.... | |
 | J. SAXENA - 1990 - 368 pages
...chemicals introduced each year. As correctly recognized by Paracelsus as early as the sixteenth century, "all substances are poisons: there is none which is...not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy." Clearly, there is a need to test these chemicals for evaluation of their potential... | |
 | C. K. Atterwill, C. E. Steele - 1987 - 490 pages
...(1492-1541), otherwise known as Paracelsus, who said "All substances are poisons; there is none which ls not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy". If we accept that all chemicals are "poisons" it follows that toxlcologlsts are not looking at a compound... | |
 | Alan Poole, George B. Leslie - 1989 - 216 pages
...Hohenheim (1493-1541) who called himself Paracelsus, that all compounds are toxic. In his Third Defence he said: 'All substances are poisons: there is none...right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.' The role of the toxicologist is to investigate and establish the nature of such toxicity in order to help... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs - 1989 - 780 pages
...toxicology is the science of poisons in the marine environment. Paracelsus said, back in the 1500s, that: 'All substances are poisons; there -is none which...right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy." Aromatic hydrocarbons are poisons. How do these poisons affect marine organisms? Basically, poisons... | |
 | Byron J.T. Morgan - 1992 - 542 pages
...Probits. 3. Medical statistics. 4. Quantum statistics. I. Title. II. Series. QH323.5.M67 1992 92-19056 'All substances are poisons; there is none which is...right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.' Paracelsus (1493-1541) Contents Preface xii Glossary and notation xv Index of data sets xviii 1 Data,... | |
 | Derek Humphry - 1992 - 196 pages
...'natural gas' used in today's cooking ovens is not lethal, as was the old 'city gas'. 107 CHAPTER EIGHT All substances are poisons; there is none which is...The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy. — PARACELUS (1493-1541) Many terminally ill people have wanted to practice selfdeliverance properly,... | |
 | Joseph V. Rodricks - 1994 - 286 pages
...fanciful superstitions. Among toxicologists and pharmacologists he is noted for his recognition that 'All substances are poisons; there is none which is...right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.' This remark adorns the frontispiece of almost every toxicology text. It was only in the late 1 9th... | |
 | Stanley S. Grossel, Daniel A. Crowl - 1994 - 548 pages
...however, cannot be changed. In the early 1500s, Paracelsus, an early investigator of toxicology stated: "All substances are poisons; there is none which is...not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy." Modern toxicolgy states: "There are no harmless substances, only harmless ways of using... | |
 | Donald Lee Wise - 1995 - 974 pages
...are of importance since, as Paracelcus wrote in 1538, "All substances are poisons. There is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy." II. COMPOSITION OF CLASSIFIED ALLOYS Metals have a long history as dental materials. Gold was used... | |
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Paracelsus established the primary principle of toxicology when he wrote that "all substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy. 
