mithridate

• I believe they would pass themselves upon us for such a compound as mithridate, or Venice-treacle; as if whiggism were an admirable cordial in the mass, though the several ingredients are rank poisons But if I think either Mr Hunt a villain, or know any of my Reflectors to be ungrateful rogues, I do not owe them so much kindness as to call them so; for I am satisfied that to prove them either, would but recommend them to their own party. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
• Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt. —  Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
• Let the best of our rational physicians demonstrate and give a sufficient reason for those intricate mixtures, why just so many simples in mithridate or treacle, why such and such quantity; may they not be reduced to half or a quarter? —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
• In this kind of melancholy, some prescribe [4398]treacle in winter, especially before or after purges, or in the spring, as Avicenna, [4399] Trincavellius mithridate, [4400]Montaltus paeony seed, unicorn's horn; os de corde cervi_, &c Amongst topics or outward medicines, none are more precious than baths, but of them I have spoken. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
• A mithridate, whose operation —  Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

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