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ubstance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic. By medicine, life may be prolonged. Shak.

Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

A medicine that diminishes irritation.

Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. Parr.

A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. Dunglison.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

ministering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

d from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.

The fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

ecomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

wder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

d appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

A medicine containing chiefly aloes.

A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.

one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

An anacatharic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.