mithridate
noun
[ ˈmɪθrɪdeɪt ]
• a medicine believed to be a universal antidote to or preservative against poison and disease.
• "to procure sweat, use cardamom water with mithridate"
Origin:
early 16th century: from medieval Latin mithridatum, alteration of late Latin mithridatium, from Mithridatius ‘relating to Mithridates’ (see mithridatize).
