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Materia medica

noun

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

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Etymology of 'Materia medica'

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... made little progress, and Virgil strongly desired its advancement. Human anatomy, as a study, had not been introduced, and physiology was almost unknown. In medicine, the standard of practice was the writings of Hippocrates, and the Materia Medica consisted of remedies suggested by the whimsical notions ...

— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

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