The science or study of remedies and medicinal substances; a branch of medicine concerned with therapeutic treatment and healing.
From Greek 'akē' (remedy/cure) + '-logos' (word/study). This term preserves ancient Greek medical vocabulary, though it has largely been replaced by modern terms like pharmacology and therapeutics.
Aceology is a ghost word in medicine—it survives in a few historical texts and specialized dictionaries but was completely abandoned when modern chemistry made 'pharmacology' the standard term, showing how scientific language evolves and discards old names.
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