Monday, January 5, 2009

What is medicine?

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication, surgery, or some other form of therapy. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing

Medicine arose out of the primal sympathy of man with man; out of the desire to help those in sorrow, need and sickness

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