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Therapeutics.

The treatment of disease by baths.

See Hydropathy.

See Kinesiatrics.

The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

The application of light for therapeutic purposes, esp. for treating diseases of the skin. -- Pho`to*the*rap"ic (#), Pho`to*ther`a*peu"tic (#), a.

The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

Psychotherapeutics.

Treatment of disease by means of Röntgen rays or other forms of radioactivity.

Serum-therapy.

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.

Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; - - also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.

Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

t is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

m of belief in mental healing other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeuti…

part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.