Desensitization? Or Is It Immunization?
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2015-03-29

Bust of Mithridates IV Eupator, King of Pontus

There was a king reigned in the East: 
There, when kings will sit to feast,         
They get their fill before they think 
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. 
He gathered all that springs to birth 
From the many-venomed earth; 
First a little, thence to more,         
He sampled all her killing store; 
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, 
Sate the king when healths went round. 
They put arsenic in his meat 
And stared aghast to watch him eat;         
They poured strychnine in his cup 
And shook to see him drink it up: 
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt: 
Them it was their poison hurt. 
— I tell the tale that I heard told.         
Mithridates, he died old.