in pharmacy; an antidote, or composition, in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poisons. See Pharmacy, no 892.—894. It takes its name from the inventor, Mithridates king of Pontus; who is said to have so fortified his body against poisons with antidotes and preservatives, that when he had a mind to dispatch himself, he could not find any poison that would take effect. The receipt of it was found in his cabinet, written with his own hand, and was carried to Rome by Pompey. It was translated into verse by Damocrates, a famous physician; and was afterwards translated by Galen, from whom we have it: though there is room to imagine it has undergone considerable alterations since the time of its royal prescriber.