Family contribution to the history of medicine? (6)
I believe the answer is:
medici
'family' is the definition.
(I know that Medici is a type of house)
'contribution to the history of medicine?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'medicine?' could be 'med' (as in the informal term 'meds') and 'med' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ici' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for medici that I've seen before include "Florentine ruling family" , "Famous Florentine family name" , "Name of great Florentine family 15-17th centuries" , "Well-known European family" , "Ice mid the Italian dynasty" .)