EGAVE

mithridatism

Meaning

  1. noun The practice of gradually ingesting successively greater amounts of a poison in order to build immunity.
    Some argue that vaccines are a form of mithridatism; this is generally considered incorrect.

Similar words

mithridate mithridatic pyramiding mithridatium theriac arsenicophagy uptitration mithridatum mithridaticon mithridate treacle

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