Let the best of our rational physicians demonstrate and give a sufficient reason for those intricate mixtures, why just so many simples in mithridate or treacle, why such and such quantity; may they not be reduced to half or a quarter?. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
If you love me, go and fetch me a little conserve of Roman wormwood and mithridate. From Wordnik.com. [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference
&c. Confections; treacle, mithridate, eclegms or linctures. or solid, as those aromatical confections. hot. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
What silly mariner in my ship hath not bought or begged mithridate or a pinch of achimenius wherewith to make good his voyage?. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Mortimer] Reference
The medicine mithridate forms a part of many of these prescriptions; it does not seem to be regarded as an alexipharmic, but as a soporific. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt. From Wordnik.com. [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference
The more effectually to support his character as a mountebank, Villiers sold mithridate and galbanum plasters: thousands of spectators and customers thronged every day to see and hear him. From Wordnik.com. [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference
I believe they would pass themselves upon us for such a compound as mithridate, or Venice-treacle; as if whiggism were an admirable cordial in the mass, though the several ingredients are rank poisons. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
Household furniture is exported to Genoa, besides the usual articles: velvets, which were then the best in the world; satins, the best coral, mithridate, and treacle, are the principal or the peculiar imports. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference
mithridates, who had made himself poison-proof, gave us the now forgotten word ‘mithridate’, for antidote; as from Hippocrates we derived ‘hipocras’, or ‘ypocras’, a word often occurring in our early poets, being a wine supposed to be mingled after his receipt. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
Poisons more dear than any mithridate. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved Nylissa] Reference
Their kinsman garlic bring, the poor man’s mithridate. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
A mithridate, whose operation. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
Delight of nature, mithridate of life. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
Any panacea is called a “mithridate.”. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
And mithridate, that vigorous health perserves. From Wordnik.com. [The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor] Reference
Some mithridate and oil, good sister, fetch me. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
Seven Astronauts 'Lives Hang in Global Warming Balance http: / / newsbusters. org / blogs / mithridate-ombud / 2007 / 08 / 13 / 7-lives-hang-global-warming-balance. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Confections, treacle, mithridate, eclegms, or linctures, &c. Solid, as aromatical confections: hot, diambra, diamargaritum calidum, dianthus, diamoschum dulce, electuarium de gemmis laetificans. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
"Well judgeth my Lord Constable, to withdraw his noble Lady from the host of petticoated empirics, who, like so many Amazons, break in upon and derange the regular course of physical practice, with their petulant prognostics, their rash recipes, their mithridate, their febrifuges, their amulets, and their charms. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
“You say well, young man,” said Dr. Lundin; “for mine own part, I know no such pests to the commonwealth as these old incarnate devils, who haunt the chambers of the brain-sick patients, that are mad enough to suffer them to interfere with, disturb, and let, the regular process of a learned and artificial cure, with their sirups, and their julaps, and diascordium, and mithridate, and my Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
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