Treatment with drugs; pharmacy; = pharmaceutics, n. Obsolete. rare.

Treatment with drugs; pharmacy; the practice or study of the manufacture, formulation, and dispensing of drugs. Cf. pharmaceutic, n. 1.

The branch of medical science that deals with drugs and their uses. In early use also: †a treatise on pharmacy (obsolete).

The branch of medicine that deals with the origins, preparation, and use of the materia medica.

A branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs of natural (esp. botanical) origin.

= pharmacognosy, n.

The scientific study of drugs.