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单词 preventive medicine
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preventive medicine
preventive medicine n. (a) a preventive medicinal agent; also figurative; (b) the branch of medicine concerned with the prevention of disease.
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preventive medicine1870
1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes ii. viii. 156 Thus much concerning the causes of the accidental and sudden Apoplexy, which falls indifferently upon all men, though not at all predisposed: for which also there can be no preventive Medicines [L. prophylaxis] instituted, and it is rarely that it is cured.
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 531 Dr Mead recommends a preventive medicine.
1819 Times 25 Aug. 2/1 The King early yesterday morning took a preventive medicine.
1870 Food Jrnl. Feb. 22 Preventive medicine received a great impulse by the labours of Coleman in relation to ventilation.
1990 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 19 780/1 The first rule in preventive medicine must be to do more good than harm.
2003 Washington Post 1 July (Home ed.) f6/3 My daughter..has been stabilized on topiramate (Topamax) as a preventive medicine.
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