theriac
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Jack of the Buttery, a name applied to p. 111Sedum acre, is said to be a corruption from bot, i.e. an internal parasite, and theriac, by which was meant a cure for that evil.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
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 Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
Bernard's Theriac.—Almost in our own time another theriac came prominently before the public.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
In the second period of the distemper, the same drinks were continued, adding thereto some theriac or Jesuit's bark, in order to lessen the frequency of the diarrhœtic evacuations.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
There he found that the most called for remedy was a theriac.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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