Definition of medicine:

• Any substance that has the property of curing or mitigating disease; the art of preventing, curing, or alleviating disease.
• Familiarly medisin, anything administered for the cure or mitigation of disease; the art of curing or alleviating disease.

Usage examples for medicine

1. I've taken up medicine.  Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John T. McIntyre

2. No, don't give her any more medicine at present.  Clematis by Bertha B. Cobb Ernest Cobb

3. No one is allowed to go to him except his mother, who gives him his milk and his medicine and makes his bed.  My Little Boy by Carl Ewald Commentator: Alexander Woollcott

4. From him we have the expression: " At times the confidence of the patient in the physician has more influence over the disease than the medicine given for it."  Psychotherapy by James J. Walsh