It contains costmary 1.66 grams, sweet flag 20 grams, hypericum, gum, sagapenum, acacia juice, Illyrian "But the most famous antidote is that of Mithridates, which that king is said to have taken daily and by it to have rendered his body The concoction is estimated to have weighedĪpproximately three pounds and to have lasted for about six months when taken Which are derived from plants, except for honey to mix them and castor to enhance the aroma.
Which he hoped would protect him against any poison.Ī hundred or so years after his death in 63īC, Celsus recorded the formulation, which comprised thirty-six ingredients, all of Prisoners, he compounded various antidotes to produce a single universal one, Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (on the southern shore of the Black Sea), concocted one of the most well-known antidotes inĪntiquity (possibly with the help of his court physician Crateuas).Įxperimenting with different formulations and trying them out on condemned He, however, being on his guard against such treachery, frequently took antidotes, and so fortified himself, byĮxquisite preventives, against their malice, that when he was an old man, and wished to die by poison, he was unable." Ride and hurl the javelin but when these attempts failed, as his management of the horse was superior to his years, they tried to cut "During his boyhood his life was attempted by plots on the part of his guardians, who, mounting him on a restive horse, forced him to
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