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Topic: Mithridatism

	Eupatorium album page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This practice came to be known as mithridatism.
		A universal antidote for a poison is sometimes referred to as a mithridate.
		Mithridates tried to poison himself instead of being captured but was unsuccessful becasue he had become tolerant of all the known poisons of his day.
	www.alabamaplants.com /Whiteopp/Eupatorium_album_page.html (275 words)

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		In the 1st century AD, Pedanius Dioskorides, a Greek army surgeon, wrote on many terrestrial plants used as drugs and also recorded the toxic nature of sea hares, polychaete worms, stingrays and sea vipers.
		The term Mithridatism is well known in pharmacology.
		It is named after the king Mithridates of Pontus (112-63 BC), an enemy of the Roman Empire.
	web.tiscali.it /toxicology/Ahome-js1.1/toxicology.htm (287 words)

	USATODAY.com - He spread the words, one e-mail at a time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He likens it to "mithridatism." Mithridates, king of ancient Pontus, near the Black Sea, was fearful of being poisoned.
		So he dosed himself with increasingly large amounts of poison to acquire a tolerance.
		Mithridatism now refers to the process of building immunity to poison.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2003-01-01-words_x.htm (614 words)

	Apothecary's Drawer Weblog
		I just ran into a nice word: mithridatism, named after Mithridates VI of Pontus, the phenomenon of partial immunity to poison acquired by taking small doses.
		It's hard not to think of Iocane powder; but arsenic is a classic real example of a poison where mithridatism is possible, as with the (possibly exaggerated) Arsenic Eaters of Styria, 19th century Austrian peasants who habitually ate, as a tonic, normally lethal doses of arsenic.
		See the paper referenced at Dr Jörg Feldmann's site, "The arsenic eaters of Styria: a different picture of people who were chronically exposed to arsenic", G. Przygoda, J. Feldmann, W.R. Cullen, Appl.
	www.raygirvan.co.uk /apoth/2005_02_01_arc.html (3694 words)

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