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Truthseeker's avatar

My great grandmother always said, ‘inside every medicine, is a little bit of poison’ … true then and even more true today. Sage advice from our elders.

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Scott Huffman's avatar

Or as one professor of pharmacology used to tell his pharmacy students, "all drugs are essentially toxins with beneficial side effects."

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Vonu's avatar

"The dose makes the poison" (Latin: dosis sola facit venenum 'only the dose makes the poison') is an adage intended to indicate a basic principle of toxicology.

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