[f. THERAPEUT(IC sb. + -IST. Cf. F. thérapeutiste.] One skilled in therapeutics; a physician.
1816–30. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extr. Const. Code (1830), 63. This little work of the illustrious Therapeutist.
1886. W. T. Gairdner, in Life Sir R. Christison, II. vii. 138. Many … are now accomplished therapeutists.
