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Medicine is the branch of engineering which concerns itself with treating damage, illness and defect in living beings (usually people, although Veterinary Medicine treats animals instead).
By a form of metonymy, medicine may also refer to various drugs and other preparations used for medical purposes.
Somewhat confusingly - and probably due to shaky translation at an early stage - the term is also used to refer to the the religious practices of the Northern Amerindian peoples (hence medicine man and similar things). Quite a bit of the confusion revolves around the fact that, whilst Amerindian "medicine" certainly included shamanistic healing rituals, rituals designed to promote wellbeing and apotropaic rituals designed to ward off sickness - not to mention actual traditional medicine - it also included the normal range of practises found in any other religion as well.
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Medicines and Medical Technology
- Agarwood
- Ambegris
- Angel's Glow
- Anti-Agathic
- Artificial Blood
- Bloodletting
- Cordial
- Doctor's Bag
- DMSO
- Dragon's Blood
- Drug
- First Aid Kit
- Growth Tank
- Healing Potion
- Herb
- Homeopathic Medicine
- Human Mummy Confection
- Kyphi
- Leeching
- Lozenge
- Mummia
- Ointment
- Organ Printing
- Pastille
- Potion
- Stem Cells
- Theriac
- Voynich Manuscript
Medical Theory and related topics
- Alchemy
- Alternative Science
- Disease
- First Aid
- Germ Theory
- Healing Magic
- Herbalism
- Humorism
- Homeopathic Medicine
- Illness
- Microbiology
- Miasma Theory
- Psychology
- Traditional Medicine
- Xenobiology
Medical Health Professionals through the ages
- Alchemist
- Apothecary
- Barber-Chirurgeon
- Black Market Doctor
- Doctor
- False Face Society
- Healer
- Herbalist
- Medicine Man
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Midwife
- Nurse
- Physician
- Piss Prophet
- Psychiatrist
- Surgeon
- Veterinarian
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