Father of Empirical Toxicology.
Mithridates VI also known as Mithridates the great was the king of Pontus in Northern Anatolia( 120-63 BC).
He became a king at young age so his mother ruled in his place as regent for a few years.
At about 115 BC, she was deposed and thrown into prison by the young king.
The king was known to be ruthless.
After the death of his father Mithridates V in 120 BC, he subjected himself to hardships and difficult times.
PARANOIA AND EXPERIMENTS WITH POISONS:
Due to the fact that the king was always so concious of enemy invasion and attacks, Mithridates VI developed an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sublethal doses of poison.
He later invented a complex universal antidote against poisoning.
After 25 years of war with the Romans, Pompey finally defeated Mithridates and threatened to take him away as his trophy but in a bid to escape, Mithridates tried to poison himself to death.
Fortunately or unfortunately, he failed because his body was already relatively immune to poisons.
AFTERMATH / RELEVANCE:
The principle of the modern day Vaccination can be linked to the works of Mithridates.
He is called the Father of Empirical Toxicology.
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