Only the other day I found in it theriac, meaning an old-fashioned antidote to venomous bites, which I deduced must exist for The Times jumbo crossword.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference

Gilchrist attended her shortly after with his little vial of theriac.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference

Canivet was about to administer some theriac, when they heard the cracking of a whip; all the windows rattled, and a post-chaise drawn by three horses abreast, up to their ears in mud, drove at a gallop round the corner of the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

And if someone has just asked for suggestions for the title of their latest book, or how pop-up books were made in the 1880s, or what were the ingredients of theriac a ‘cure’ for plague, you do, of course, feel duty bound to spend the morning helping out your friend rather than getting on with your work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Machines guns to the ready - writers get together] Reference

The theriac, galene, was venoms and those that counter ailments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Some of them, suspecting poison, treated the wounds with theriac and antidotes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

Galene became known that of mithridatium, which also differed in con - as theriac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

He refers to both mithridatium and ther - theriac formulation appears in this leechbook. iac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

But we lawyers boil our theriac even nowadays and regard the most important study, the study of reality, with arrogance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference

To this new product he gave the name 'galene', content of Andromachus 'theriac was higher than which means' tranquillity '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In England it became known as 'Venetian A Saxon leechbook of the eleventh century records treacle' ( 'treacle' is a corruption of theriac).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

These concerns to life, default of which meant the parents were liable maintain the quality of mithridatium and theriac to fi ne or imprisonment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The best application of this kind is that composed of cinnamon powder, gilliflower, ginger and rose water, together with theriac, the crumb of bread, and red wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference

Ther - that Abel, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, sent mithrida - iac became an article of commerce, with Venice, tium or theriac to King Alfred the Great, who died Padua, Milan, Genoa, Bologna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In the reign of Elizabeth I, the making of the Apothecaries and the defective wares were to of theriac was entrusted to William Besse, an be burnt or otherwise destroyed. apothecary in Poultry, London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The fearful suffering and violent convulsions which followed only subsided at the expiration of five or six hours, and at last, the theriac which was administered to him after the bite, effected a cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference

The document is in It was commonly thought by those in authority two parts or leechbooks; the fi rst contains 88 chap - that if mithridatum or theriac did not produce the ters and the second 67 chapters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference

Perhaps, in the College of Physicians in 1767 and in the fi rst fi nal analysis, the contribution of mithridatium and three volumes, 1768-1785, he published 16 theriac to modern medicine was that concerns papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Venetians are to pay to the emissary of the Pasha of Travnik on his way to Zadar, how much velvet, how many loaves of sugar and how many pots of theriac must be provided for each member of his entourage; and in the same treaty it is laid down that the Turks are to give up all those who have deserted to them, yea even if they have become.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1] Reference

And, without listening to the chemist, who was still venturing the hypothesis, "It is perhaps a salutary paroxysm," Canivet was about to administer some theriac, when they heard the cracking of a whip; all the windows rattled, and a post-chaise drawn by three horses abreast, up to their ears in mud, drove at a gallop round the corner of the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

After their round of inspections the group retired Doubts as to whether theriac and mithridatium to a hostelry where at 16.00 h they sat down to were the universal panacea had been voiced by dinner, at the College's expense, with the Presi - Culpepper and other physicians such as Dr John dent, Registrar and Treasurer of The College of Quincy, who died in 1722.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

College attorney, who worked in the new point that Nicholas Culpepper, in his Dispensatory (1649), the censors were empowered to search shops of all refers to both mithridatium and 'Venetian treacle'. persons selling medicines, as they already did for References in English literature to theriac always apothecaries 'shops and the right of search was to refer to it as treacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The boy that dropped the ballast, he came to me after his death, when I’d taken the theriac.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference

33.1 THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MEDICINES CONTROL FROM A NATIONAL TO AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 421 Table 33.2 The development of concepts of medicines regulation in England as illustrated by the history of mithridatium and theriac Regulatory measure Date Quality and inspection 1423, 1540, 1723 Fines for breach of Regulations 1540, 1553, 1617 Speci fi ed composition 1586 Licensing of speci fi c manufacturer (s) 1586, 1625 Destruction of faulty product.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Effects of the theriac.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference

The theriac.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference