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/mˈɛdəkəl sˈaɪəns/ Listen

Medical science

noun

The science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease.

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"Medical science" Quotes from Famous Books

... are heard the person, who gets the smallest pin-prick the next morning, dies; and no medical science has ever ...

— Indian Ghost Stories - Second Edition • S. Mukerji

... was used in marking out a run-over on the next following page was fresh. Anyhow, Mr. Vandeman, we know that a woman came weeping to Mr. Gilbert on the very night of his death, only a short time before his death—as nearly as medical science can determine that—and we believe that she came after those leaves out of the diary, and got them—whatever she had to do to ...

— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

... feldsher represent two very different periods in the history of medical science—the magical and the scientific. The Russian peasantry have still many conceptions which belong to the former. The great majority of them are already quite willing, under ordinary circumstances, to use the scientific means of healing; but as soon as a violent ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... disprove the telepathic hypothesis, another engaged in a systematic examination of the alleged facts of clairvoyance. A third, in its turn, under the skilful guidance of Gurney, investigated the phenomena of the hypnotic trance, with results unexpectedly beneficial to medical science. A special committee was also appointed to collect and sift evidence as to the reality of apparitions and hauntings, making whenever possible personal examinations of the seers of the visions and the places of their occurrence. Finally, ...

— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce

... likely to be approved by 'the many who sit in judgment,' there are others who can give no form to their ideal, neither having learned 'the art of persuasion,' nor having any insight into the 'characters of men.' Once more, has not medical science become a professional routine, which many 'practise without being able to say who were their instructors'—the application of a few drugs taken from a book instead of a life-long study of the natures and constitutions of human beings? Do we see as clearly as Hippocrates 'that the nature of the body ...

— Phaedrus • Plato

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