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Fragment #21—Scholiast on Nicander, Theriaca, 452: 'But you should be gentle towards your father.'

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

It is interesting to read so early a bitter criticism of the famous "Theriaca," a great compound medicine invented by Antiochus III, which had a vogue for fifteen hundred years.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

Prescribes only the Theriaca pauperum, or poor Man's Treacle, in the Dose of a Quarter of an Ounce.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

In Egypt the viper is still made use of in medicinal preparations; and a great number of them are sent to Venice for the confection of the celebrated Theriaca.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)