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pplying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.

Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. "Theriacal herbs." Bacon.

A white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc.

human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.

The art of employing perfumes in medicine. [R.] Dunglison.

of an African asteraceous plant (Guizotia abyssinica), yielding a bland fixed oil used in medicine.

A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. Spenser.

Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. [Written also tokology.]

The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy.

A medicine that increases the srength, and gives vigor of action to the system. Tonic sol-fa (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it empl…

Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.

t slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

A traumatic medicine.

ts, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.

To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.

t or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.