medicine

n. 1. the name of the healing profession hijacked by the pharmaceutical industry over the last 100 years, now aptly named medicine due to its heavy drug dependency. 2. The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. [Plato] 3. consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. [Voltaire] See medication.





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