Theriac
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theriac-203-13028282
title:
Theriac
text:
Theriac or theriaca is a medical concoction originally labelled by the Greeks in the 1st century AD and widely adopted in the ancient world as far away as Persia, China and India via the trading links of the Silk Route. It was an alexipharmic, or antidote for a variety of poisons and diseases. It was also considered a panacea, a term for which it could be used interchangeably: in the 16th century Adam Lonicer wrote that garlic was the rustic's theriac or Heal-All. The word theriac comes from the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Medieval medical concoction
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriac
date created:
2006-02-15T12:51:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:12:51Z
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