theriac

Medical history
(1) A combination of herbs given by Roman physicians, which contained opiates and antispasmodics, administered as cure-alls.
(2) A mixture of substances with alleged therapeutic value, used in the Middle Ages as cure-all or an antidote to various poisons.

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Mithridates Antidote

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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.

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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.

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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).

The ancient drug opium

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.

Summaries of papers/Opsommings van referate

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.

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It acts exactly like the 'theriac' [sic!], an infallible remedy for all illnesses....

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(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.

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He also addresses Marcus Aurelius' use of an opium-containing theriac and tonic, mediated through his physician, Galen.