The Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (129-c. 210) has preserved in his two tracts De antidotis and De theriaca ad Pisonem the original recipe of the theriac under the name of Andromachus. Galen specifies that Andromachus was the first to add flesh of vipers in this pharmacological preparation. This paper intends to study the real originality of Andromachus compared with his predecessors and to examine in which sense he can really be considered as the inventor of the theriac.
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