Medicine

(med'-is-in). 1 he science and art of preserving health, and preventing and curing disease; the " healing art," including a! science of obstetrics. In a more restricted sense "t the word surgery is excluded. On the European continent it is customary to divide medicine into internal and external, the former implying the restricted sense the term, or the study of diseases of internal organs, the latter referring to surgery or external diseases. The term is applied also to a particular drug or therapeutic application. M., Atomistic, dosimetric medicine. M. -chest, a case or compartment for storing or carrying medicines. M., Clinical, pertaining to the study of disease by the bedside of the patient: internal medicine. M., Conservative, a method of treatment with the object of preserving the vital forces, and not by active measures, that endanger the life of the patient; also used in the ordinary sense of tlie word as relying upon well understood, or accepted or established methods of treatment, rather than upon new and comparatively untried plans. M.. Domestic, the use of domestic remedies. M., Dosimetric. See Dosimetry. M., Eclectic. Set Eclectic. M.. Empiric. See Empiric . M., Equine, veterinary medicine as applied to the horse. M., Forensic, or M., Legal, the relations of medicine to jurisprudence, involving the diagnosis of insanity, questions in toxicol. surgery, and the like. M., Neurodynamic, the application of heat and cold to the spine in the treatment of certain diseases. M., -pannier, a pannier used in the United States army for transporting medicines. M. Patent, a mixture or compound of sundry drugs for the sale of which the deviser gets a patent from the government. The ordinary so-called patent medicines, however, are not patented, but have only the name copyrighted. M., Pneumatic, the treatment of disease by means of compre ed and rarefied air. See U'aldenburg s Apparatus. M.. Preventive, that which aims at the prevention of disease, in the community as well as in the individual. M., Proprietary. See Medicine, Patent. M., State, medical jurisprudence. M., Veterinary, the science and treatment of the diseases of domestic animals. VIediciner (med-is' -in-er). A physician. Wed i cinerea. The gray matter of the claustrum and lenticula of the brain, lying between the cortex or ectocinerea and the entocinerea.