{"id":666,"date":"2024-04-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=666"},"modified":"2024-04-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:00:00","slug":"76-mithridatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"76- Mithridatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-666-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/84075890\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-2-15%2Fca7eb383-f22c-5f92-3117-1ee669b4fb3e.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/84075890\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-2-15%2Fca7eb383-f22c-5f92-3117-1ee669b4fb3e.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/84075890\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-2-15%2Fca7eb383-f22c-5f92-3117-1ee669b4fb3e.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today&#039;s episode is going to feature one of the later monarchs from the Hellenistic era- Mithridates VI of Pontus. This is because his practice of trying to make himself immune to poison- called mithridatism- is biologically relevant and and continues to be influential until the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jarcho, S. (1972), Medical Numismatic Notes, VII: Mithridates IV. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 48(8): 1059-1064.<\/li>\n<li>Kaberopoulos, D., Karamanou, M. and Androutsos, G. (2012), The art of medicine: The theriac in antiquity. The Lancet 379: 1942-1943.<\/li>\n<li>Karamanou, M., Androutsos, G., Hayes, A. W. and Tsatsakis, A. (2018), Toxicology in the Borgias period: The mystery of <em>Cantarella <\/em>poison. Toxicology Research and Application 2: 1-3.<\/li>\n<li>Valle, G., Stanislao, M., Facciorusso, A., Carmignani, M. and Volpe, A. R. (2010), Mithridates VI Eupator, father of the empirical toxicology. Clinical Toxicology 47(5): 433.<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Antiochus III the Great (online) (Accessed 28\/07\/2023).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Demetrius I Soter (online) (Accessed 28\/07\/2023).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Laodice IV (online) (Accessed 28\/07\/2023).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Laodice VI (online) (Accessed 28\/07\/2023).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Mithridates VI Eupator (online) (Accessed 29\/07\/2023).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Seleucus II Callinicus (online) (Accessed 28\/07\/2023).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#039;s episode is going to feature one of the later monarchs from the Hellenistic era- Mithridates VI of Pontus. This is because his practice of trying to make himself immune to poison- called mithridatism- is biologically relevant and and continues to be influential until the 18th century. Sources for this episode: Jarcho, S. (1972), Medical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;76- Mithridatism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}