POLICE

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 13

n. Po2l-es'. Gr., TroAireia (from jrdAis, a city). Lat., politia. Fr., p. Ger., Polizei. In medicine, an organization intrusted with the care of all matters affecting the public health; also the work of such an organization, [a, 48.] [s. 303]