theriac
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He travelled through Thrace and Macedonia on foot, met the imperial personages, and prepared for them a medicine, for which he seems to have been famous, and which is spoken of as the theriac.
From Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae
Whenever any compound was for any reason spoiled in the drug store, the rule was, "Put that aside for the theriac."
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
Bernard's Theriac.—Almost in our own time another theriac came prominently before the public.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
In the second period of the distemper, the same drinks were continued, adding thereto some theriac or Jesuit's bark, in order to lessen the frequency of the diarrhœtic evacuations.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
