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as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. -- Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.

A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.

An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.

r pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly, adv. Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal su…

The science of preparing medicines.

That branch of pharmacology which treats of the action and the effects of medicines.

That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines. Dunglison.

That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.

Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.

A medicine or drug; also, a poison. Dunglison.

A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.

One who sells medicines; an apothecary.

The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

A white, crystalline compound, C10H13O2N, used in medicine principally as an antipyretic.

A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine. "A doctor of physik." Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative. [Obs.] "Physical herbs." Sir T. North. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes…

According to the rules of medicine. [Obs.] He that lives physically must live miserably. Cheyne.