Definition of "antitoxine" [antitoxine]

• Archaic form of antitoxin. (noun)

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• "The antitoxine which is formed during the disease, and the production of which in the horse can be enormously stimulated by the injection of toxine, represents merely the excess of cell receptors, and when the serum of the horse containing them is injected in a case of diphtheria the same combination takes place as in the case of receptors provided by the patient."
• "Plainly, if it is possible to obtain this antitoxine in quantity and then inoculate it into the body when the toxic poisons are present, we have a means for decidedly assisting the body in its efforts to drive off the parasites."
• "It will be clear that to obtain the antitoxine we must depend upon some natural method for its production."