A confection said to be invented by Mithridaʹtēs, King of Pontus and Bithynʹia, as an antidote to poison. It contains seventy-two ingredients.
“What bravespirit could be content to sit in his shop … . selling Mithridatum and dragon’s water to infected houses?”—Knight of the Burning Pestle. (1635.)
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