Overview
“Antitoxic” refers to compounds and processes that act to neutralize something identified as toxic.
History and Etymology
In the early 1900s, physicians like George Pettey and Ernest Bishop argued that chronic substance use should be studied as:
“A disease, a toxemia, of drug, auto- and intestinal origin, the management and treatment of which belong to the field of internal medicine and not to neurology. The vital and essential principle of the treatment advocated is elimination.”