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To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false. "The case proves mortal." Arbuthnot. So life a winter's morn may prove. Keble.

ease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. -- Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.

An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.

A pulmonic medicine.

A purging medicine; a cathartic.

To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.

One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.

e genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil.

A caustic medicine.

zed by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

n portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law),…

uassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.

The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.

bination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

To be a cure for; to remedy. [Obs.] No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate.

A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.