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Therapeutic   /θˌɛrəpjˈutɪk/   Listen
Therapeutic

adjective
1.
Tending to cure or restore to health.  Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, sanative.  "Her gentle healing hand" , "Remedial surgery" , "A sanative environment of mountains and fresh air" , "A therapeutic agent" , "Therapeutic diets"
2.
Relating to or involved in therapy.  Synonym: therapeutical.



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"Therapeutic" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... have made John stare, being as it is a comparatively modern fancy of intellectually untrained people who keep the Bible on the same shelf, with Napoleon's Book of Fate, Old Moore's Almanack, and handbooks of therapeutic herbalism. You may be a fanatical Salvationist and reject more miracle stories than Huxley did; and you may utterly repudiate Jesus as the Savior and yet cite him as a historical witness to the possession by men of the most marvellous thaumaturgical powers. "Christ Scientist" ...
— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

... be a widespread impression—an assumption—that the day of the drug is over—that the therapeutic of the future are to be concerned along with hygiene and sanitation, with physical exercise, diet, and mechanical operations. The very word "drug" has come to have an objectionable connection that did not belong to it fifty years ago. Even some of the druggists ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick

... the amount of blood in cases of blood transfusion for therapeutic purposes. From the number of red blood corpuscles of the patient before and after blood transfusion, the amount of blood transfused and the number of corpuscles it contains, by a simple mathematical formula the ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich

... non-religious healer, sometimes designated as the "scientific healer," on the contrary, recognizes that there are some diseases which are more easily cured than others, and that of those others some are practically incurable by psycho-therapeutic methods. ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... was doubly potent, for the barley from which the beer was made and the drink itself was supposed to be imbued with the life-giving powers of Osiris, and the blood-colour reinforced its therapeutic usefulness. The legend now begins to become involved and confused. For the goddess is making the rejuvenator for the king, who in the meantime has died and become deified as Osiris; and the beer, which is the vehicle of the life-giving ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith



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