英语词汇medicine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	medicine
词源	medicine. Maurice B. Gordon nicely explained this word, as Indians used it, in Aesculapius Comes to the Colonies (1949): “The word ‘medicine’ itself is a good example of the American Indian’s dualism of theology and medicine . . . He employed the term not only for a drug or herb but also for some super- natural agency which may be invoked to cure disease or even insure the success of an undertaking.”
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