单词 | acology |
释义 | † acologyn. Medicine. Obsolete. Esp. in the terminology of Thomas Young: a branch of medicine dealing with therapeutic agents or procedures. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > therapeutics therapeutic?1541 therapeutics1671 acology1813 1813 T. Young Introd. Med. Lit. 417 (heading) Acology. 1813 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 9 471 The subject of therapeutics,—we beg pardon, of ‘Acology’,—follows. 1819 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIII. 329 We might divide the objects of acology into those that act upon the body generally, and those that act upon particular organs, or through the medium of particular functions. 1842 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica (ed. 2) I. 1 Acology..is that department of Therapeutics devoted to the consideration of remedies. Some authors limit Acology to the consideration of surgical and mechanical remedies. 1895 Asclepiad 11 429 He [sc. Young] defends the use he made of the term ‘acology’ instead of therapeutics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1813 |
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