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The earliest Medici had been physicians (medicus is Latin for physician, hence their name), but later they had turned banker.
The Story of Mankind 1921
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The words meditation and medication have the same prefix derived from the Latin word medicus, meaning to care or to cure, indicating that meditation is likely to be the most effective and efficient remedy for a busy and overworked mind.
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The words meditation and medication have the same prefix derived from the Latin word medicus, meaning to care or to cure, indicating that meditation is likely to be the most effective and efficient remedy for a busy and overworked mind.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Stress! 2010
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Meditation and medication are derived from the Latin word medicus, to care or to cure.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: 8 Ways Meditation Can Change Your Life 2010
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The word meditation and the word medication have the same prefix derived from the Latin word medicus, meaning to care or to cure, indicating that meditation is the most appropriate medicine or antidote for stress; a quiet calmness is the most efficient remedy for a busy and overworked mind.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: Getting High: On Drugs, Medication Or Meditation? 2009
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He practised as a physician and, instead of using plants, prepared his medicines in the laboratory of the day, in which the furnace, crucible, and retort were most largely employed; this made him known as the medicus per ignem.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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What his august master saw fit to mete out to him, however, was neither the one nor the other: he was stationed at Stuttgart as 'medicus' to an ill-famed regiment consisting largely of invalids.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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Stuttgart as 'medicus' to an ill-famed regiment consisting largely of invalids.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Note 277: "Perfectus medicus phisicus novit ... armoniam pulsuum tamquam quandam armoniam musice": as cited in Gallo, Music in the Castle, 60. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Sic expedit; medicus non dat quod patiens vult, sed quod ipse bonum scit.
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