[mod.L., a. Gr. type *θεράπευσις healing, 1. θεραπεύειν το tend, heal (a sick person).] Therapeutic treatment.

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1857.  Dunglison, Dict. Med. Sci., Therapeusis, therapeutics.

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1875.  H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 679. In regard to therapeusis, the first point to be determined in acute cases is … when to commence electrical treatment.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 211. Effecting a more scientific and direct therapeusis.

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