When:
Friday, May 3, 2024
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 4364, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Blaze Marpet
Group: Global Antiquities
Category: Academic
A complex wonder-drug said to have been invented by King Mithridates VI of Pontus, Theriac began as an antidote to poison. Over its long history it became a universal panacea, traveling as far as China and persisting in medical practice into the 19th century. What was the secret to Theriac's extraordinarily long life? In this talk we will take the history of Theriac as a case study in ancient pharmacology and its intellectual legacy in western medicine.