give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine

medicine | American Dictionary

medicine
noun
us/ˈmed·ə·sɪn/

medicinenoun (TREATMENT)

[ U ]
the science dealing with the preserving of health and with preventing and treating disease or injury:
Pediatrics is a branch of medicine.
She continued to practice medicine until she was in her eighties.

medicinenoun (SUBSTANCE)

[ C/U ]
a substance taken into the body in treating an illness:
[ U ]Take two spoonfuls of cough medicine.
[ C ]This antibiotic should not be taken with other medicines.

medicinal

adjectiveus/məˈdɪs·ə·nəl/
The Indians used the plant as a medicinal substance.

medicine | Business English

medicine
noun
uk /ˈmedɪsən/us
[ U ]
the treatment of illness or injury, or the study of how illnesses and injuries are treated:
Medicine has advanced enormously over the past 100 years.
alternative/complementary/preventive medicine
[ C or U ]
a drug that is used to treat illness or injury:
Producing new medicines is an enormously complex and costly process.
The President announced that he would send $320 million worth of food and medicine to the region.
over-the-counter/prescription medicine(s)

Examples of medicine

medicine
The analogy to medicine is telling here, as well.
These three sub-specialities are important for the theory, practice, and teaching in academic medicine.
The report recommended that, in principle, economic analysis should be pursued for all pharmaceuticals, but only simple price comparisons should be undertaken for generic medicines.
It further entails an analysis of how patient-centered medicine can work in different directions, some quite coercive.
Grasslands also improve organic matter, utilized by crops and a range of plants used as medicines.
Other scientific terms from botany, chemistry, medicine, etc. that one might encounter in general entomological works are also included.
In the first we find the generic categories that most readers are likely to expect: potential, environment, motivation, anxiety, the brain, and medicine.
Another informal source of midwifery knowledge would have been relatives who practised midwifery or medicine.
Traditional medicine is developing into an economically unfeasible high-tech operation that governments are increasingly weary of supporting, especially where public health systems exist.
This situation, however, did not vitiate the legitimacy and respect enjoyed by medicine.
It is also dominated by studies of professions, especially of law and medicine.
A number of events have contributed to the growth of transplantation medicine and elevated public expectations.
It may also indicate an elevating research interest in the field of hyperbaric medicine.
The dominant aim of medicine is the elimination or prevention of illness.
These have included publications exploring popular medicine, the introduction of compulsory education for children, and, most dramatically of all, the imposition of military conscription.
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Collocations withmedicine

medicine

These are words often used in combination with medicine.

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clinical medicine
They are central realities in clinicalmedicine.
conventional medicine
If a scientific method is practised, we can improve the performance of conventionalmedicine and non-conventionalmedicine.
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