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theriac
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Theriac or theriaca was a medical concoction originally formulated by the Greeks in the 1st century AD and widely adopted in the ancient world as far away as China and India via the trading links of the Silk Route . It was an alexipharmic, or antidote , ...
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n. 1 an antidote to a poison, especially to the venom of a snake 2 (context obsolete English) treacle; molasses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theriac \The"ri*ac\, Theriacal \The*ri"a*cal\, a. [Cf. F. th['e]riacal.] Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. ``Theriacal herbs.'' --Bacon.
Usage examples of theriac.
Instead, having no Theriac, for want of something better, I applied my Digestive.
Well, so it seems that by the time we went up the hill, Doctor Pare had run out of the oil of elder and Theriac, and so, for want of something better, he mixed up what he called a Digestive.
If it follows Galen, then it prescribes theriac as an antidote and recommends bloodletting to balance the humors.
One of its older popular names in this country was 'Poor Man's Treacle,' meaning theriac, in which sense we find it in Chaucer and many old writers.