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noun

Materia medica n.

Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.

That branch of medical science which treats of the sources, nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases, primarily with natural preparations, rather than pure or synthetic medicines; pharmacognosy.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Materia medica" Quotes from Famous Books

... mentioned in the Koran unless Mohammed were, as Sale observes, "a prophet indeed." Tabakak, a plate, dish, or shelf, is now sometimes used by ignorant persons in the East for tambako, of which a complete account is given in the Karabaden, or great treatise of Materia Medica in Persian. Of that work, there is a beautifully written copy, made, probably, for the late Mr. Colebrooke, by whom it was presented to the library of the Royal Asiatic Society. I shall conclude ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 • Various

... writers were Aetius and Alexander of Tralles, both of whom were strongly under the influence of Galen and Hippocrates. Their materia medica was based ...

— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler