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Materia medica

noun
1.
The science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects.  Synonyms: pharmacological medicine, pharmacology.





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... mentioned in the Koran unless Mohammed were, as Sale observes, "a prophet indeed." Tabakak, a plate, dish, or shelf, is now sometimes used by ignorant persons in the East for tambako, of which a complete account is given in the Karabaden, or great treatise of Materia Medica in Persian. Of that work, there is a beautifully written copy, made, probably, for the late Mr. Colebrooke, by whom it was presented to the library of the Royal Asiatic Society. I shall conclude ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 • Various
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... writers were Aetius and Alexander of Tralles, both of whom were strongly under the influence of Galen and Hippocrates. Their materia medica was based ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler
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Words linked to "Materia medica" :   pharmacopeia, formulary, posology, pharmacokinetics, medical specialty, transdermal, tincture, psychopharmacology, toxicology, pharmacological medicine, medicine, transdermic, adjuvant, percutaneous, transcutaneous, pharmacology, decoction


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