medical vs medicative

medical

adj
  • Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. 

  • Requiring medical treatment. 

  • Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means. 

  • Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery. 

  • Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. 

  • Pertaining to the state of one's health. 

noun
  • A medical examination. 

medicative

adj
  • Medicinal; acting like a medicine. 

How often have the words medical and medicative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )