medicine
• noun 1 the science or practice of the treatment and prevention of disease. 2 a drug or other preparation taken by mouth in order to treat or prevent disease. — PHRASES give someone a dose of their own medicine treat someone in the same unpleasant way that they treated others. — ORIGIN from Latin medicus ‘physician’.
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