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materia medica

NOUN
  1. the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects

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  • The study of prescription design will provide the basis for realizing microencapsulation in Chinese materia medica.
  • The first recorded medicinal applications of rodia riza renamed Rhodiola Rosea was made by the Greek physician, Dioscorides, in 77 C.E. in 'De Materia Medica'. Balkinization
  • ( "Materia medica" is Latin for the materials of medicines used in homeopathy, and this term is both used to describe a body of symptoms associated with a specific medicine, and it is a single or set of books that do this). Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Drug pairs, an important ingredient in prescription compatibility, is the bridge between materia medica and prescriptions.
  • Shelburn Cook found that the Mexican materia medica indeed included an abundance of remedies for these types of illnesses. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • One popular therapy at this time (which continues today in China) was the combination of anmo with herbal ointments, liniments and salves derived from the Chinese materia medica.
  • Dr. Hone went up and down the streets, loudly denouncing such "humbugs," while his partner, Lapland, laughed at the preposterous idea of learning all about materia medica in three weeks! The Right Knock A Story
  • Hasdai ibn Shaprut, leader of Córdoba's Jewish community in the middle of the tenth century, was not only a great medical scholar but was also the chairman of the caliph's medical council; and when the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII sent the caliph a copy of Dioscorides 'De Materia Medica, the caliph sent for a Greek monk to help translate it into Arabic. How Muslims Made Europe
  • On the same kind of analogy, a German doctor has introduced hemlock and other poisons, as specifics, into the materia medica. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • Written herbals had been copied avidly through the Middle Ages and beyond, with Dioscorides's ‘De Materia Medica’ as a basic text.
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