A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way
in alchemy, was that agent which brought about the transmutation of metals, or renewed old age; the philosopher's stone, and the elixir of life How much unlike art thou, Mark Antony! Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra l 5 Father of Medicine Aretæos of Capadocia, who lived at the close of the first and beginning of the second century, and Hippocrates of Cos (B C 460-357) are both so called
The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease or illness
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert
Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Medicine is the treatment of illness and injuries by doctors and nurses. He pursued a career in medicine I was interested in alternative medicine and becoming an aromatherapist Psychiatry is an accepted branch of medicine