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The line between medicine and poison is just a decimal point.
means A measured amount of something — usually medicine — taken at one time; the quantity that determines whether it heals or harms.
from From Greek 'dosis,' meaning 'a giving' or 'a portion given,' from 'didonai,' to give. It passed through French into English around the 1500s as a medical term for the precise amount of a drug to be administered — the word itself is literally about the act of giving, long before it picked up its darker shades (a 'dose' of bad news, a 'dose' of the clap). The decimal point was always implied: Greek physicians already knew that what heals and what kills can be the same substance, differently given.
- origin
- from Greek dosis, meaning a giving
- paracelsus rule
- only the dose makes the poison
- coffee math
- your fourth cup is a different drug
- half-life logic
- missed doses rarely mean double next time