MEDICAL DICTIONARY
Materia medica: 1. The ingredients used to make medications, whether those be for medicine, homeopathy , herbal medicine, or whatever. 2. The branch of medical science concerned with the study of drugs and their properties, preparation, administration, and such. A synonym for pharmacology .
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., the renowned Dean of Harvard Medical School, once commented that: "If the whole of the materia medica as now used could be sunk in the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
From the New Latin meaning medical material.
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