What does the word treatment mean?
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Therapeutics, therapy; the medical or surgical care of a patient; the institution of measures or the giving of remedies designed to cure a disease.
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The management of a case of disease; a term applied both to the patient( as T. of the insane) and to his disorder( as T. of insanity). T. may be distinguished( 1) according to the end sought to be attained, as into Prophylactic or Preventive, in which the aim is to prevent the occurrence of the disease; Active, when measures are taken directly against the disease itself; Specific, when these measures are such as are peculiarly adapted to the special affection; Expectant or Symptomatic, when the disease itself is left to run its course, and the symptoms only are treated as they arise; Palliative, when the only attempt if to relieve the patient’s sufferings. Or t. may be distinguished according to( 2) the means employed, as into Hygienic, Supporting, Dietetic, Medicinal, Surgical, etc.
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Usage examples for treatment
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Swift was full of indignation at the treatment he received in Dublin; and therefore resolved to pursue his studies at Oxford. – The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V. by Theophilus Cibber
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An extensive alteration had already taken place in the treatment of the Catholics. – A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
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