BioConcepts

medicinemedicina (lat.); médecine (fr.); Medizin (ger.)

• The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery). (OED 2011)
  category disease

  c. -80 (BC)

  si medicinae materiam dicamus morbos ac vulnera

  Cicero (um 80 v. Chr.). De inventione 1, 7; vgl. ders. De finibus bonorum et malorum 5, 161.

  c. 90 AD

  erit ars medicina

  Quintilian, Institutio oratoria lib. 2, cap. 17, par. 39.

  c. 1260

  ars medica quae est quaedam potentia, ut dictum est, se habet ad infirmitatem et sanitatem faciendam

  Thomas von Aquin (c. 1260). In Aristotelis libros Metaphysicorum: IX, 2.