Confectio Damocratis (Mithridatium).
Cinnamon, 14 drachms, myrrh, 11 drachms; agaric, spikenard, ginger, saffron, thlaspi seeds, frankincense, Chio turpentine, of each, 10 drachms.
Camel's hay, Arabian costus (zedoary), Indian leaf (mace), French lavender, long pepper, hartwort seeds, juice of rape of cistus, strained storax, opoponax, strained galbanum, balm of Gilead (expressed oil of nutmeg), Russian castor, of each, 1 oz.
Poley mountain, water germander, fruit of balsam tree (cubebs), white pepper, Cretan carrot seeds, strained bdellium, of each 7 drachms.
Celtic nard, gentian root, Cretan dittany leaves, red roses, Macedonian parsley seeds, lesser cardamum seeds, sweet fennel seeds, gum Arabic, strained opium, of each 5 drachms.
Sweet flag root, wild valerian root, aniseed, strained sagapenum, of each 3 drachms.
Spignel, St. John's wort, juice of acacia (catechu), bellies of seines, of each 2-1/2 drachms.
Clarified honey, three times the weight of all the rest.
Theriaca Andromachi.
Troches of squills, 1/2 lb.
Long pepper, strained opium, dried vipers, of each, 3 oz.
Cinnamon, balm of Gilead (expressed oil of nutmeg), of each, 2 oz.
Agaric, orris root, scordium, red roses, navew seeds, extract of licorice, of each 1-1/2 ounces.
Spikenard, saffron, greater cardmoms, myrrh, costus (zedoary), camel's hay, of each 1 oz.
Cinquefoil root, rhubarb, ginger, Indian leaf (mace), Cretan dittany leaves, horehound, calamint, French lavender, black pepper, parsley seeds, olibanum, Chio turpentine, valerian root, of each, 6 drachms.
Gentian root, Celtic nard, spignel, poley mountain, St. John's wort, ground pine, creeping germander, fruit of balsam tree (cubebs), aniseed, fennel seed, lesser cardamoms, bishop's weed, hartwort, treacle mustard, juice of rape of cistus, catechu, gum Arabic, storax, sagapenum, Lemnian earth (Armenian bole), calcined green vitriol, of each, 1/2 oz.
Creeping birthwort, lesser centaury, Cretan carrot seeds, opoponax, strained galbanum, Russian castor, Jews' pitch (white amber), sweet flag root, of each, 2 drachms.
Clarified honey, three times the weight of all the rest.
Philonium,
a famous antidote invented by Philon of Tarsus, who is supposed to have lived in the early part of the first century (a contemporary probably of Saul of Tarsus). Galen says of it that it had been in great reputation for a long time, and was one of the earliest of the compounds of the kind. Philon gives his formula in Greek verses and in such enigmatic language that it
