materia medica
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materia medica
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From Latin māteria (“material”) + medica (“curative, medical”).
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Synonym of pharmacology, particularly its development in early modern Europe.
Later on, in the Middle Ages, medical knowledge advanced to such an extent that textbooks on materia medica and germane subjects often treated this area of erotica.
Similar: pharmacology, particularly its development in early modern Europe
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Synonym of medicine: the substances so used, particularly traditional cures prepared from animals and plants such as herbal medicines but inclusive of early drugs.
CHIAN earth, in pharmacy, one of the medicinal earths of the ancients, the name of which is preſerved in the catalogues of the materia medica but of which nothing more than the name has been known for many ages in the ſhops...
Similar: medicine
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