Materia Medica is that department of the science of medicine, belonging partly to pharmacology, partly to therapeutics, which treats of the materials employed for the alleviation and cure of disease, their properties, physiological actions, and uses. See PHARMACOPÆIA, POISONS, MEDICINE, APERIENTS, and articles on the various drugs.
Materia Medica
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 91
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