[ad. mod.L. therapīa, a. Gr. θεραπεία healing: cf. θεραπεύ-ειν to attend medically. Cf. F. thérapie.] The medical treatment of disease; curative medical treatment.
1846. Worcester cites Month. R.
1873. Wagner, trans. Teuffel’s Hist. Rom. Lit., II. 26. The second [treats] of … general pathology and therapy.
1881. Virchow, in Nature, 11 Aug., 348/1. It will be pointed out to us … that therapy is to be replaced by hygiene.
1894. Lancet, 3 Nov., 1044. Serum therapy … is a discovery belonging to M. Behring.
