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That branch of medicine which is concerned with the remedial treatment of disease; the art of healing. In the singular. Now rare.
That branch of medicine which is concerned with the remedial treatment of disease; the art of healing. Now usually in the plural therapeutics n.
Esp. in the terminology of Thomas Young: a branch of medicine dealing with therapeutic agents or procedures.