"The Export of
Theriac from the Land of Israel and its Uses in the Middle Ages".
Craig
Theriac: Scale Computing has been around since 2008, and we launched our HC3 product in 2012.
does not appear to have composed a treatise on
theriac. For a list of
In a substantially revised version of his 2011 PhD dissertation at Exeter University, Leigh presents a new edition with commentary of a second-century Greek treatise concerned with the history, manufacture, and properties of the complex drug
theriac or Galene, invented (according to the treatise) by Andromachus, personal physician to Nero, who took a recipe derived from Mithridates VI of Pontus and added the flesh of vipers to it.
Most recently, Dr Noronha worked as chief scientific officer of JW
Theriac Inc, a pharmaceutical company focused on new drug research and development, which he joined in July 2011.
Da Gama himself caught an arrow in the leg and dressed his wound with a poultice of urine, olive oil and a
theriac of supposedly helpful ingredients mixed with honey.
A very popular remedy for bodily pains and insomnia amongst the ancient authors was
theriac, a mixture made of several ingredients, including poppy extract and snake venom (Siegel 1976:134).
However, it has recently been suggested that his pleasant nature was conditioned by opium addiction--the drug deriving from a daily dose of
theriac, prescribed by his physician, Galen.
Galen, for instance, treated the melancholic emperor Marcus Aurelius with
theriac, a concoction of sixty-odd ingredients, chief among them the pulverized flesh of a viper--that is to say, snake oil.
It acts exactly like the '
theriac' [sic!], an infallible remedy for all illnesses....
(103) The range of healing techniques mentioned by Barros includes the use of
theriac, the all-purpose medicine known to have been prescribed from late antiquity onwards.
He also addresses Marcus Aurelius' use of an opium-containing
theriac and tonic, mediated through his physician, Galen.