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Adj.

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thérapeutique

, Gr. [GREEK], from [GREEK] attendant, servant, [GREEK] to serve, take care of, treat medically, [GREEK] attendant, servant.]

(Med.)

Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative.

“Therapeutic or curative physic.”

Sir T. Browne.

Medicine is justly distributed into “prophylactic,” or the art of preserving health, and

therapeutic

, or the art of restoring it.

I. Watts.

therapeutical ‎(comparative more therapeutical, superlative most therapeutical)

therapeutic — see therapeutic