Excerpt from Text-Book of Materia Medica for Nurses Tee broad meaning Of medicine (medicino) is the science and art Of healing and curing the sick (gould) but aside from this meaning the word is used in a restricted sense, to signify a drug used for the cure or relief of disease. The word drug means a substance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.