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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Medicament, n. Also: Mendicament. [e.m.E. (1541), F. médicament, L. medicāmentum.] A medicament; a drug or application usedin curative treatment. 1533 Boece ii. ix. 75.
Strange maladeis … to quhilkis the medicamentis of oure awne cuntre mycht nocht avale 1574 Edinb. Test. III. 203.
Droggis, vnguentis, emplasteris, spices & vtheris medicamentis 1588 Argyll Fam. Lett. 85.
For droggis and medicamentis bestowit vpoun the said nobill … ladie c 1580–90 Rules of Health (Moray Mun.).
The best medicamentis 1640 Misc. Bann. C. II. 254. 1661 Buccleuch Mun. II. 311.fig. 1586 Cal. Sc. P. VIII. 567.
And the disease [sc. a political difficulty] curit … ather be medicamentis levytyve or corrosyve 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 154.