Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poisonous substance given off from the lungs.
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It is nowadays explained as the effect of the excretion of carbonic acid gas and of the generated anthropotoxin; another explanation makes it a nervous phenomenon in which the mere recognition that release is impossible causes fainting, the loss of consciousness.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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