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The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and ...
The elixir of life (Medieval Latin: elixir vitae), also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. This elixir was also said to cure all diseases. Alchemists in various ages and cultures sought the means of formulating the elixir.
I Shall Survive Using Potions! ( Japanese : ポーション頼みで生き延びます！ , Hepburn : Pōshon-danomi de Ikinobimasu! ) is a Japanese light novel series written by FUNA.
By the 13th century, this word became pocioun, referring to either a medicinal drink, or a dose of liquid medicine (or poison). The word "potion" is also cognate with the Spanish words pocion with the same meaning, and ponzoña, meaning "poison"; The word pozione was originally the same word for both "poison" and "potion" in Italian, but by the ...
In Chinese history, the alchemical practice of concocting elixirs of immortality from metallic and mineral substances began circa the 4th century BCE in the late Warring states period, reached a peak in the 9th century CE Tang dynasty when five emperors died, and, despite common knowledge of the dangers, elixir poisoning continued until the 18th century Qing dynasty.
Elaborately gilded drug jar for storing mithridate. By Annibale Fontana, about 1580–1590.. Mithridate, also known as mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum, is a semi-mythical remedy with as many as 65 ingredients, used as an antidote for poisoning, and said to have been created by Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus in the 1st century BC.
When cane sugar was an exotic Eastern commodity, the English recommended the sugar-based treacle as an antidote against poison, [7] originally applied as a salve. [8] By extension, treacle could be applied to any healing property: in the Middle Ages the treacle (i.e. healing) well at Binsey was a place of pilgrimage.
In season two of the series Warrior (2020), Officer Lee (Tom Weston-Jones) becomes addicted to laudanum when he uses it to offset his lingering head trauma. In the TV movie North and South (Based on the John Jakes novel of the same name) laudanum is used by Justin to drug Madeline to keep her trapped and complacent.