mithridate

The term mithridate has come to refer to any generally all-purpose antidote.

Monime is a character in a tragedy of five acts called Mithridate.

Until as late as 1786, physicians in London could officially prescribe mithridate.

"Less than an hour ago I gave her a draught of mithridate and treacle to speed the labor.

He mixed all the effective antidotes into a single one, mithridatium or mithridate.

"The Mithridate"

In the Middle Ages, mithridate was also used as part of a regimen to ward off potential threats of plague.

Mithridate (1673)

This article is about the remedy; Mithridate is also a 1673 play by Jean Racine.

One was the lack of historic veracity in plays such as Britannicus (1668) and Mithridate (1673).

(excerpt from Mithridate).

The manufacture of antidotes called mithridate or theriac (English "treacle") continued into the nineteenth century.

Mithridate discovers Pharnace's love for Monime by spreading a false rumour of his own death.

Il Mithridate (3 acts, 1751)

AD 77) was skeptical of mithridate and other such theriacs (panacea potions), with their numerous ingredients:

Mithridate (1648-51)

The demise of Mithridates VI is detailed in the 1673 play Mithridate written by Jean Racine.

Laure Diebold, liaison agent of the "Mithridate" network and secretary to Jean Moulin, deported.

According to historian Christopher Hill, Oliver Cromwell took a large dose of mithridate as a precaution against the plague and found it cured his pimples.

MITHRIDATE, an antidote against poison.

Mithridate is a tragedy in five acts (with respectively 5, 6, 6, 7, and 5 scenes) in Alexandrine verse by Jean Racine.

Based on Racine's 1673 drama "Mithridate," the opera is about the King of Pontus's struggle to sort through an unfortunate confluence of political and domestic problems.

This year, the 300th anniversary of Racine's death, two of his plays, "Andromaque" and "Mithridate," will again be staged by the Comedie.

For nearly 2000 years, poisons were thought to be the proximal cause of disease, and a complicated mixture of ingredients, called Mithridate, was used to cure poisoning during the Renaissance.

The king (Pyrrhus, Néron, Titus, Mithridate, Agamemnon, Thésée) holds the power of life and death over the other characters.