The science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects.
Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing.
1We can imagine a few improvements in the materia medica of the future.
2So the recital might be continued all through orthodox materia medica.
3Well, that was a signal triumph over materia medica, wasn't it?
4The materia medica of twenty-five years ago is now obsolete.
5Jewel's remark on the train about materia medica recurred to him, and he smiled.
6I have said not a word about zoology, comparative anatomy, botany, or materia medica.
7This is frankly admitted in every allopathic materia medica.
8It wouldn't do for you to talk against materia medica to the patients in the anteroom.
9Yet his materia medica was a simple one.
10Their materia medica was based largely upon Dioscorides.
11In medicine he wrote on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, pathology, therapeutics, materia medica, surgery, hygiene, and dietetics.
12He acknowledged good in all of them, and he welcomed most of them in preference to materia medica.
13Again, materia medica, so far as it is a knowledge of drugs, is the business of the druggist.
14Should he need treatment, however, he goes to a man who has scientific knowledge of diagnosis and materia medica.
15These plants would thus come into more frequent use and finally would obtain general recognition in the Indian materia medica.
16As a young man he gained first medals in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, materia medica, surgery, pathology, and practice of physic.
Translations for materia medica