Since 2002 the Society has concentrated on developing the collection of historical and contemporary proprietary medicines.

It is currently used to refer to healers, particularly in third world regions, who use traditional healing rather than contemporary medicine.

Thus, opium is rarely prescribed to treat pain in contemporary medicine.

The appropriate treatment in contemporary western medicine is complete surgical excision of the abnormal growth with a small amount of normal surrounding breast tissue.

The use of leeches for medicinal purposes, or hirudotherapy, has been revived by contemporary medicine.

This was used both in antiquity and in contemporary popular medicine.

More than anything, however, the field resembles contemporary medicine.

Both, however, indicate what Hahnemann thought about contemporary conventional medicine, rather than the current ideas of his colleagues.

Oliver Sacks, a neurologist, has become a kind of poet laureate of contemporary medicine.

Even now plants collected through Don Elijio's knowledge and collaboration are being evaluated for their use in contemporary medicine.