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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.
noun
1.
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.  Synonyms: curative, cure, remedy.



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"Therapeutic" Quotes from Famous Books



... best doctor who knew the uselessness of medicines. But when public opinion demands a bottle, and is unwilling either to accept or pay for advice alone, the doctor may be forced to give medicines which he feels are of little value, hoping that their suggestive power will be greater than is their therapeutic value. ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs

... mean that they do not have hostile feelings toward each other. They often do, and this comes out clearly and unmistakably. We do not mean, either, that healthy discharge of these feelings might not be good for them—in our therapeutic work with individual couples in conjoint interviews, we make full use of such controlled opportunity for cathartic release with ensuing interpretation. It is our considered opinion, however, that in the particular context of our enrichment retreats, unrestrained ...
— Marriage Enrichment Retreats - Story of a Quaker Project • David Mace

... He was sorry he had applied what he thought was practical Christian Science. He tried Smokey with therapeutic treatment. He gave him a cone of strawberry ice-cream. When Smokey ate only half of it, Jimmy knew it was a grave case and that something ought ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various

... two Stanton boys and their mother. One of them is in that 'wheeled contraption'. It's called a therapeutic chair." ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... no therapeutic remedies for fevers, cholera, beri-beri, rheumatism, consumption, diarrhea, syphilis, goiter, ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks


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