Poisoning in the Modern World New Tricks for an Old Dog?

• Outros Autores: Karcioglu, Ozgur (Editor), Arslan, Banu (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: IntechOpen 2019
• Assuntos: Medical toxicology; heavy metals, toxicity, free radicals, carcinogenesis, acute kidney injury, cosmetics
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over 400 years ago, Swiss alchemist and physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) cited: "All substances are poisons; there is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy." This is often condensed to: "The dose makes the poison." So, why are we overtly...