Definition of Medicine

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Medicine

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.

A philter or love potion.

A physician.

To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

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.

Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.

Short for Medicine man.

Intoxicating liquor; drink.

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Medicine Quotations

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

Medicine Translations

medicine in Afrikaans is medisyne
medicine in Dutch is medicijn, artsenij, geneesmiddel
medicine in German is Medizin, Arznei {f}
medicine in Italian is medicina, medicina
medicine in Latin is rememdium
medicine in Norwegian is medisin
medicine in Portuguese is medicina
medicine in Spanish is medicina, medicina, medicamento

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