In old days it is general practice for some kings to take small portion of poison daily so that snake poison or any type of poison will not effect them
Alexander mother use to give him poison like medicine
Edited by -PD- - 8 years ago
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It meant that his mother used to give him tiny portions of poison since he was a small child. With that, his body became immune to poison and that's how he could come out alive.
They used that trick - not only for snake poison - it saved them from the poison on war swords - if get hurt in wars. Yes -they used to apply poison on edges of the battle swords/arrows etc...will kill ...opponent even in a small scratch...poison gets in blood and that's it.