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<p><b><i>Materia medica</i></b> (<a href="page.php?w=Literal_translation">lit.</a>: 'medical material/substance') is a <a href="page.php?w=Latin">Latin</a> term from the <a href="page.php?w=history_of_pharmacy">history of pharmacy</a> for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing (i.e., <a href="page.php?w=medication">medication</a>s). The term derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician <a href="page.php?w=Pedanius_Dioscorides">Pedanius Dioscorides</a> in the 1st century</p><p>
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