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One of my personal favorites in this category is mithridatism the gradual immunization of a person against a poison by administering it over a long period in small, but increasing dosages; it refers to Mithridates IV the Great of Pontus (? 133-65 BC), who, according to Justinian, foiled a conspiracy by just such a method before dispatching the conspirators one day at dinner by dosing the food with poison that had no effect on him.
(That story, by Thomas Ricks and Robert Greenberger, was also the first report of the detail in yesterday's NYT about the U.S. dispatching a general to Pakistan to reassure that U.S. cruise missiles were not an attack by India.)
The robot system is safer than dispatching human rescuers and, when space is tight, more effective.