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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.

healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.

A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

A medicine for affections of the lungs.

and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases. [Obs.] Polychrest salt (Old Med. Chem.), potassium sulphate, specifically obtained by fusing niter with sulphur.

The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.

A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.