firing-out

Updated: June 29, 2025

We try to help nature instead of thwarting her. Supposing that the poison be of more insidious form, a germ or a ptomaine, for instance, which slips past these outer "firing-out" defenses of the food-tube and arouses no suspicion of its presence until it has been partially digested and absorbed into the blood. Again, resourceful nature is ready with another line of defense.

Woods Hutchinson - Preventable Diseases