Carpenter, Essays on some of the most important articles of the materia medica .
Robert Bartholow, recently Professor of Materia Medicain the University of Pennsylvania.
The writers on the Materia Medica in general have entertained a very high opinion of the virtues of this pant.
The building called Minerva Medica by the Notitia may have been near this spot, as some inscriptions here discovered show, but it most probably consisted only of a chapel of no great extent standing near the Via Praenestina.
Maria sopra Minerva, and therefore the name of Minerva Medica cannot with any certainty be applied here.
Another interesting little shovel from the same museum is of bronze, and carries the head of Minerva Medica on the end of the handle (Pl.
Others carry the head of Minerva Medica like the spoon in Pl.
Materia medica is rich in drugs whose virtues have been vaunted in dysentery, and cases occur where the judicious physician will make his selection according to the indications in a given case.
In the vegetable materia medica there are many and ancient remedies.
The three parts of the Materia Medica were published separately, and the two last have been inserted in the Amaenitates Academicae.
An Herbary or alphabetical Materia Medica of herbs & other drugs; beginning with Aloen, Aloes, Aurum, and ending with Zelboarium.
The earliest extant European work dealing with medicinal plants is the famous Materia Medica of Dioscorides, which was accepted as an almost infallible authority as late as the Renaissance period.
In his Materia Medica he described about five hundred plants, with some attempt at an orderly scheme, though, naturally, the result is seldom successful when judged by our modern standards of classification.
Busbecq brought from Constantinople a wonderful collection of Greek manuscripts, including Juliana Anicia's copy of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, now in the Vienna Library (see pp.
The accounts of the plants in the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, for example, are so brief and meagre that only those with the most marked characteristics can be identified with certainty.
In the summer of 1820 he accepted an appointment to the professorship of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in Dartmouth College, where he delivered his first course of lectures in the following autumn.
Until the close of the session of 1838, he held this chair, and also lectured on Materia Medica and Obstetrics, to meet occasional exigencies in the college.
The list of drugs presented in this book is now the basis of instruction in many schools; and many state examining boards are confining their materia medica questions to the drugs in the list.
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
No discussion of ginseng is to be found in the more recently published books on pharmacology, materia medica and therapeutics, evidently because their authors agree with this estimate.
Professor of Materia Medicaand Therapeutics in King's College, London.
Hempel's Repertory is an elaborate practical index to the Materia Medica and the only complete work of the kind in our language.
Professor of Matera Medica and Therapeutics in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (460 pages.
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Attending Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, &c.
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Attending Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, &c.
Materia medica lacks the exact elements of a science.
If materia medica were a science, disease should be in a process of extermination.
While surgery has been making rapid strides toward the position of an exact science, confidence in materia medica is on the wane.
It wouldn't do for you to talk against materia medica to the patients in the anteroom.
Jewel's remark on the train about materia medica recurred to him, and he smiled.
Human feces, urine, and menstrual blood were introduced into the materia medica in such a manner.
The great aim of rendering the modern Materia Medica conformable to the ancient seems to have made the early botanists rather inattentive to objects before their eyes.
He is ample in his discrimination of the species, as his great object was to ascertain the Materia Medica of the ancients, and of Dioscorides in particular, throughout the vegetable kingdom.
Materia medica was almost identical; and while we had better fortune with physiology, no experience and no apparatus for verifying its teachings were ever shown us.
The whole materia medica has been, unfortunately, unsuccessfully sought without the discovery of a single remedy for this disease, or even a palliative of its severer symptoms.
The excrement, fat, and hoof were included in the Materia Medica of the Ph.
Soon after appointment Hope recognised that to continue to hold "colleges" in Materia Medica meant spoliation of his botanical work.
Both of the Prestons seem to have been chiefly interested in the Materia Medica side of Botany and their teaching was on the lines of it.
Alston was now colleague of Munro, Rutherford, Sinclair, and other famous men who at this time were increasing the reputation of the University as a Medical School, and he continued to teach Botany and Materia Medica until his death in 1760.
He therefore managed to carry through an arrangement by which he retained a chair as Professor of Medicine and Botany, and a new Professorship of Materia Medica was created.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medica" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
