Volume 1

Antitheriaka. An essay on mithridatium and theriaca / [William Heberden].

  • William Heberden
Date:
[1745]
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Credit: Antitheriaka. An essay on mithridatium and theriaca / [William Heberden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    )\ the world than good : The former declaims with great vehemence againft the injiidieioufnels, the oftentation and wantonnefs of this heap of Drugs.^ Both of them leem, oddly enough, to agree in referring.the invention of it to the juft judgment of • heaven-; as if the delulion was too ftrong and unaccountable to proceed from mere human artifice and contrivance. But notwithftanding what thefe and others have faid againft it, it ftill goes on to be prepared in the old manner, as near as may be, in all the great cities of Europe. It’s power -indeed and fame has of late been manifeftly declining;- and we may hope that it’s reign will not laft much longer. Enough furely has been given to Antiquity: let not length of time, which has ever been the fatal enemy of falfhood and impofture, be made in this inftance to fupport and proteil them. Perhaps the glory of it’s firft expulfion from a public Difpenfatory was referved to thefe times and ^ Therlaca vocatur excogitata compofitio luxuriae ; fit ex I rebus externis, cum tot remedia dederit Natura, quae fingula fufficerent. Mithridatium Antidotum ex rebus Liv com- ponitur, interim nullo pondere aequali, et quarundam rerum lexagefima denarii unius imperata. Quo Deorum perfidiam iftam [al. per fidem ifta ] monfirante ? Hominum enim fubtilitas tanta efie non potuit. Oftentatio artis et porten- tofa fcientiae venditatio manifefia efi. Plin. N.H, L. 29.0,1. to