toxin-antitoxin

/tok-sin-an-ti-tok-sin, -an-tee-, -an-ti-tok-sin, -an-tee-/US // ˈtɒk sɪnˌæn tɪˈtɒk sɪn, -ˌæn ti-, -ˈæn tɪˌtɒk sɪn, -ˈæn ti- //

毒素-抗毒素

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Immunology.
- : a mixture of toxin and antitoxin, formerly used to induce active immunity against certain diseases, especially diphtheria.

In this understanding, art is like a medicine or a toxin, transforming its audience for good or ill.
In fact Botulinum Toxin is a lethal substance that can cause botulism, a life-threatening illness.
The same toxin that causes this “pseudomembrane” to form can also damage organs like the heart and kidneys.
Though she has clarified that she “and the autism community” are not anti-vaccine per se, they are “anti-toxin and anti-schedule.”
It presumes “that art is an instrument like medicine or a toxin that can be injected into us and transform us.”
As to the use of antitoxin as a preventive and cure for diphtheria, too much praise cannot be given to that wonderful discovery.
Reliable diphtheria antitoxin, used in proper quantity and early enough, is almost an absolute cure.
If you find a physician opposed to the use of antitoxin this simply means that he is a quack.
It does, however, unite with the toxin or poison given off by the germs and renders it entirely harmless.
The use of antitoxin, which prevents annually many thousands of deaths from diphtheria, does not help us in many other diseases.