[= F. toxicologie (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. Gr. τοξικόν taken in sense ‘poison’ (see TOXICUM) and -LOGY.] The science of poisons; that department of pathology or medicine that deals with the nature and effects of poisons. So Toxicological a., belonging or relating to toxicology (sometimes erron. used for toxical). Thence Toxicologically adv., in relation to toxicology; Toxicologist, a person versed in toxicology, one who studies poisons.
1839. Blackw. Mag., XLV. 59. To guess whether the *toxicological agent … was a mineral, a vegetable, or an animal poison.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., s.v. Toxicology, We have elsewhere … referred to their toxicological history.
c. 1865. J. Wylde in Circ. Sc., I. 320/2. In toxicological analyses.
1882. Springmuhl, in Standard, 23 March, 2/2. It differs *toxicologically and constitutionally from pure Aconitine.
1829–32. R. Christison, Treat. Poison, xiii. (ed. 2), 387. The rule laid down by almost all modern “toxicologists.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 876.
1799. Hooper, Med. Dict., *Toxicology,… a dissertation on poisons.
1853. W. Gregory, Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3), 230. The reader is referred to the works on toxicology and legal medicine.
