atoxyln.
/əˈtɒksɪl/ Chemistry.
An organic arsenical compound (esp. as formerly used hypodermically in skin diseases). Equivalent names include arsamin and soamin.
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1906 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 3/4 The treatment of the patients was based on the simultaneous use of atoxyl and strychnine.
1906 Daily Chron. 21 Dec. 5/3 Professor Koch decided to employ atoxyl injections of half a gramme.
1911 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. IX. 104 Optic atrophy caused by arsenical injections, in the form of atoxyl.
1920 J. M. H. Macleod Dis. Skin 111 Arsacetin and orsudan have the advantage over atoxyl of being more stable and capable of being boiled without decomposition.
1943 Endeavour Apr. 41/1 The organic arsenicals, atoxyl, salvarsan, neo-salvarsan.
1957 A. H. Douthwaite Hale-White's Mat. Med. (ed. 30) 383 Pentavalent Arsenicals. Sodii Aminoarsonas (B.P.C.). Synonym, Atoxyl.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxiii. 352 Arsenic is specially liable to cause optic atrophy, usually total, when administered in the form of pentavalent compounds such as atoxyl or soamin.
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