therapeutist

English

Noun

therapeutist (plural therapeutists)

1. Someone who studies, works with, or uses therapeutics; a therapist.
   • 1876, Edward Seguin, Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature, page 200:

     Gavaret mathematically demonstrated in 1839 the increase of body-heat when the febricant shivers with cold, and its precedence of some hours before the chill, by which signs the therapeutist is warned in time to administer the antidote.