Medicine

[t]he science and art dealing with the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease." Webster's Second 1527.

The art of understanding diseases and curing or relieving them when possible. It is that branch of physic which relates to the healing of diseases. It is not restricted to any particular methods or remedies. 71 111. App. 239. The term "medicine" is not limited to substances supposed to possess curative or remedial properties, but has also the meaning of the healing art, — the science of preserving health and treating disease for the purpose of cure, — whether such treatment involves the use of medical substances or not. 278 111. 257.

The practice of medicine includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating, or alleviating bodily diseases, while the practice of surgery is limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appliances. Smith v. Lane, 24 Hun (N. Y.) 633. The primary meaning of the terms medical attendance or medical services is the rendering of professional medical services. See Druggist; Physician.

The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and understood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating or alleviating bodily diseases, while the functions of the latter are limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appliances. Smith V. Lane, 24 Hun (N. Y.) 633.

— Forensic medicine. Another name for medical jurisprudence. See Jurisprudence.

— Schools of medicine. See Osteopathy ; Psychotherapy.

“The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and understood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating, or alleviating bodily diseases, while the functions of the latter are limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appliances.” 24 Hun, 633. ute to be carried by all vessels aboye a certain tonnage.

The practice of medicine includes the application of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating or alleviating bodily diseases; while the practice of " surgery " is limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appliances." I M'Culloch V. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 414 (1819); 35 N. J. L. 546. Perrine v. Kreman's Ins. Co., 23 Ala. 576 (1853); Knighton v. Cuery, 68 id. 408 (1878). 3 Schneider v. Hosiej, 21 Ohio St. 112 (1871), Mcllvaine, J.; Meidel v. Anthis, 71 111. 246 (1874), Breese, C. J. And see Sharpley v. Brown, 43 Hun, 375 (1887). < See Sedgwick, Damages, 29. 5 Berks County v. Bertolet, 13 Pa. E25 (1850), Rogers,,'Judge. Story V. Walker, 11 Lea, 517 (1883), Cooper, J. ' Whitoomb v. Reid, 81 Miss. 569 (1856). One who undertakes to cure disease by mere manipulation is not engaged in practicing either medicine or surgery.*. " Allopathic practice " of medicine means the ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned physicians, taught in their institutions, established by their highest authorities, and accepted by the larger portion of the community. By " eclectic practice " is intended a different system, unusual and eccentric, not countenanced by the class, referred to,, but characterized by them as spurious and denounced as dangerous. See Druggist; Drttos; Liquor; Physician. Medicine-cliest. All vessels over a given size are required, by acts of Congress, to keep a medicinechest' Medical. Pertaining to medicine, or the study or practice of medicine. Medical adviser. See Communication, Privileged, 1. Medical attendance. Is not restricted to professional medical services rendered; will include nursing, as, within a statute for the relief of paupers.* A medical attendant is one to whom the care of a sick person has been intrusted. Medical college. Is not a "benevolent, charitable, scientific, or missionary society!" * The courts cannot be too scrupulous in examining the asserted rights of colleges to graduate matriculants with the degree of doctor of medicine. The power of the legislature to prescribe reasonable conditions calculated to exclude from the profession persons unfitted to discharge its duties cannot be questioned. Statutes for the accomplishment of this purpose, which have been common, generally require that the practitioner shall be a graduate of an institution for medical instruction, or shall have a certificate of qualification from some recognized body of men learned in the science, and shall be of good moral character.' See Emergency. Medical evidence. Testimony furnished by physicians or surgeons, or standard treatises prepared by them. See Expert; Science. Medical examination. See Inspection, 3, Of person. Medical jurisprudence. Treats of matters 1 Smith V. Lane, ante, = Bradbury v. Bardin, 34 Conn. 453 (1867), Mc Curdy, J.; Same v. Same, 36 id. 581 (1869). Bardin had falsely represented that his practice, made the subject of a sale, was regular allopathic. ' 1 Story, Laws, 106; 2 id. 971; E. S. §§ 4569-70. ' Scott V. Winneshiek County, 53 Iowa, 680 (1879). ' Edington v. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 5 Hun, 6 (1875). People V. Cothran, 27 Hun, 345 (1883). ' People V. Gunn, 30 Hun, 325 (1883). requiring medical knowledge and skill, as well as knowledge of law; forensic medi- cine. Medical lectures. See Lectuees. Medical services. May include the professional services of a medical clairvoyant. ' Medical or medicinal uses. See Liquor. Medico-legal. Pertaining to matters of toth law and medicine. MEDIETAS LnN-GU . L. Half of a tongue: a jury composed one-half each of aliens and denizens or natives; or, a jury one-half of whom are of the nationality of one of the parties to a suit. Medietatis linguce, or de medietate lingua. Of half a (mixed) tongue: half of each language or nationality. At common law, when an accused pers'on spoke only a foreign language, and the fact was made known to the court, a petit jury was immediately awarded, \irithout the ordinary precept, one-half of the jurors speaking English, and one-half the language of the alien. The principle never had application to thiscountry.*