Thěr'a-peŭ'tie or Thěr'a-peŭ'tie-al, a.

a. [Fr. thérapeutique, Sp. & It. terapeutico, Gr. θεραπευτικός, from θεραπεύειν, to serve, to take care of, to heal.] Of, or pertaining to, the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative.

Medicine is justly distributed into “prophylactic,” or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. Watts.