medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
pharmacy; drugstore; chemist's (shop); pharmacist; druggist; chemist
ring finger; third finger; fourth finger (in piano-playing); fourth toe
medicated bath; (medical) decoction; infusion; medicinal hot spring
to be beneficial (to); to do (a person) good
overprescription; overmedication; drug dependence
harmless but pointless; neither bad nor good
to learn a lesson (usu. from an unpleasant experience); to be good for someone
to do drugs; to take (illicit) drugs
effectiveness of a drug; efficacy of a drug
a born fool is never cured; (lit.) there is no medicine for fools
winter-time practice of eating meat of animals such as boar and deer to ward off cold
drug history handbook; drug notebook; medical diary
there is a huge markup in medicines, making it a profitable field; medicines sell for ten times the cost of their ingredients; (lit.) medicine ten times
prevention is better than cure
one man's meat is another man's poison; (lit.) one man's medicine is another man's poison
drinkers drink too much (and harm themselves in the process), nondrinkers drink too little (and miss out on the medicinal benefits of alcohol)
there's no medicine for stupidity