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Therapeutic   /θˌɛrəpjˈutɪk/   Listen
adjective
Therapeutical, Therapeutic  adj.  (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." "Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it."



noun
Therapeutic  n.  One of the Therapeutae.






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"Therapeutic" Quotes from Famous Books



... it has been my painful province to witness the deplorable consequences of the non-recognition, by friends and relatives, of the precedent symptoms of those organic affections of the brain, the relief of which was within the reach of well-known therapeutic agents if exhibited seasonably." ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... its several therapeutic uses, then said, "Perhaps you'd like to try it yourself while ...
— It's All Yours • Sam Merwin

... ethical value is what no one can contradict. It is a painful but very useful operation, which demands a great deal from the physician as well as from the patient. Psychoanalysis seen from the standpoint of therapeutic technic consists chiefly of numerous analyses of dreams; these in the course of treatment, little by little, bring what is evil out of the subconsciousness to the light and submit it to the disinfecting ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... of hygiene and therapeutic measures are widely scattered through medical literature, and extend over hundreds of years of time. Many volumes have been written on diseases of the eye, the heart, liver, and stomach, brain and other organs, to understand which requires ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... gas lighters and for lighting cigars, cigarettes, etc. Mesothorium, a by-product of the manufacture of thorium nitrate for gas mantles, is used as a substitute for radium in luminous paints and for therapeutic purposes. The alloy ferrocerium is used to a small extent in iron ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith


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