therapeu'tics

[G. therapeutike, medical practice.] The practical branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of disease, empirical t., treatment of a morbid state by means of remedies which experience has sho-wn to exert a favorable influence in similar conditions, ma 'ive ster'ilizing t. the treatment of an infectious disease, especially one of protozoal origin, by one large dose of a suitable remedy, large enough to sterilize all the ti ues and to destroy the microorganisms contained therein; the rap i a magna sterilisans. me'diate treatment of a nursing infant by administering remedies to the mother, ra'tional t., a plan of treatment of disease based upon a correct interpretation of the symptoms and a knowledge of the physiological action of the remedy employed. specific t., treatment of a disease by means of a specific remedy, as of malaria by quinine, or syphilis by mercury or the Ehrlich-Hata preparation.