theriac

• However there appears to be some confusion in the classical sources as to whether he took poisons to habituate himself or whether he had a special antidote or theriac called "Mithridatum", supposed to have been rediscovered or improved by —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• The balm itself, however, is called triaca [in Old Provencal], theriac. —  Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Korach 5769 - June 26, 2009 ]
• This and the Sedums album and reflexum were ingredients in a famous worm-expelling medicine, or theriac (treacle), which conferred the title "Jack of the Buttery," as a corruption of "_Bot. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• Compare the German sollen 341] Otherwise known as theriac (from the Greek [Greek: thęriakos pertaining to a wild beast," since it was supposed to be an antidote for poisonous bites). —  History of the Plague in London
• He first scarified the flech that was about the wound, then he caused spread some theriac (one of the rarest contrepoisons, made mainly of the flech of the Viper) on a cloath which he applied to it. —  Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676

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