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▪ I. therapeutic, n.|θɛrəˈpjuːtɪk|
Also 6 tera-.
[In sense 1, ad. mod.L. therapeutica, a. Gr. θεραπευτική (sc. τέχνη) the art of healing, fem. sing. of θεραπευτικός: see therapeutic a. In Fr. thérapeutique (16th c.). In senses 2 and 3 recent absolute uses of the adj.]
1. That branch of medicine which is concerned with the remedial treatment of disease; the art of healing.
a. In the singular. Now rare.
(Quot. 1890 may belong to 2 b.)
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A j, The fourth boke of the Terapeutyke or Methode curatyfe of Claude Galyen. 1547Boorde Brev. Health Pref. 2 b, Galen, prince of phisicions, in his Terapeutike doth reprehende and disproue [it]. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. ii. 19 Who did likewise deuide Physicke..into two parts, to wit, that which we commonly call Therapeuticke..: and..that part which we call Diagnosticke. 1890S. P. Lambros in Athenæum 30 Aug. 294/2 The modern therapeutic is far from having used all the sources of the ancients.
b. Now usually in the plural therapeutics.
1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. i. 324* The Therapeuticks, or active part of Physick, is either Material, or Relative. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch p. ii, The Chinese also have made that a part of their Therapeutics. 1843Mill Logic vi. vi. §1 Students in politics..attempted to study the pathology and therapeutics of the social body, before they had laid the necessary foundation in its physiology.
2. a. A curative agent. b. A medical man.
1842Abdy Water Cure (1843) 123 M. Roche acknowledges..that cold water has long been known as a therapeutic. 1858Hogg Life Shelley II. 429 Medical society... Some of the therapeutics were tolerably good company.
3. pl. = Therapeutæ. rare.
1847Webster, Therapeutics,..a religious sect described by Philo. They were devotees to religion.
▪ II. theraˈpeutic, a.
[In sense 1, ad. mod.L. therapeutic-us, a. Gr. θεραπευτικός, f. θεραπευτής, agent-n. from θεραπεύ-ειν to minister to, treat medically, f. θέραψ, θεραπ- attendant, minister. In sense 2, from the name of the Therapeutæ.]
1. Of or pertaining to the healing of disease. Also loosely in weakened use.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 230 Therapeutick or curative Physick, we term that, which..taketh away diseases actually affecting. 1678Phillips (ed. 4) s.v., The Therapeutick part of Medicine, is that which treats of the healing or curing of diseases. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 577 Here the fundamental therapeutic principles are proposed. 1857Miller Elem. Chem. (1862) III. 196 It has long been used as a therapeutic agent. 1970Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 15 She doesn't get bad-tempered; she merely picks up the piece of patchwork she is working on. ‘It is so peaceful and relaxing, quite therapeutic.’ 1982L. Chamberlain Food & Cooking of Russia 253 Bread-making in the last century was a continuous process rather than a therapeutic exercise on a wet afternoon.
2. Of or pertaining to the Therapeutæ.
1681S. Parker Demonstr. Law Nat. ii. xviii. 248 Philo affirms that this Therapeutick Sect prayed onely twice a day. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Therapeutæ, Josephus..does not say one word of the Therapeutæ, or the therapeutic life. 1875Expositor 429 Members of the Essene or Therapeutic communities.
3. Special collocations: therapeutic community, a residential unit comprising staff and certain classes of mentally or behaviourally disturbed patients run in a deliberately informal manner to encourage social reintegration and rehabilitation; therapeutic index, the ratio of the lethal or toxic dose of a drug to the therapeutically effective dose.
1964G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? viii. 167 In the past decade, reformers have gone a step further, attempting to put inmate and authority on the same level: partners in a ‘*therapeutic community’. This endearing phrase originated at Belmont. 1977Lancet 24/31 Dec. 1344/2 Common-milieu therapy, used by most therapeutic communities, is probably best regarded as re-educative psychotherapy.
1942H. R. Rosenberg Chem. & Physiol. Vitamins 150 The *therapeutic index [of vitamin B1]..is extremely high. 1973J. J. McKelvey Man against Tsetse iii. 200 It had a narrow therapeutic index, that is, a small difference between the ‘curative’ dose that would kill trypanosomes in human blood and the ‘tolerated’ dose beyond which the host would suffer damage.
▸ therapeutic touch n. Alternative Med. a form of therapy in which the therapist's hands pass over the patient, involving little or no physical contact.
1975D. Krieger in Amer. Jrnl. Nursing May 784/1 *Therapeutic touch..consists of the simple placing of the hands for about 10 to 15 minutes on or close to the body of an ill person by someone who intends to help or heal that person. 2001Alternative Therapies in Health & Med. Mar. 94/1 A cohort of senior nurses..support teaching and practice biofeedback, therapeutic touch, and other alternative therapies. |