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