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theriac

[theer-ee-ak] / ˈθɪər iˌæk /


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Ancient medicine looked first of all for the universal panacea and boiled theriac; contemporary medicine dissects, uses the microscope, and experiments, recognizes no panacea, accepts barely a few specifics.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross

But we lawyers boil our theriac even nowadays and regard the most important study, the study of reality, with arrogance.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross

There he found that the most called for remedy was a theriac.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Bernard's Theriac.—Almost in our own time another theriac came prominently before the public.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Being, however, provided with theriac and other antidotes against the poison, Alvaro and all his men recovered from their wounds.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr


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