Surgery and Medicine. An aim or purpose in a healing process; hence, a plan or method of treatment. archaic.

Medicine. A recommended or prescribed medical treatment for a specific disease. Also in figurative context. Obsolete.

Medicine. A plan or method of treatment; = intention, n. 10a 10b Obsolete.

A particular method or course of treatment directed towards the recovery of a patient, as in water-cure, milk-cure, etc.

Chiefly depreciative. A mode or method of medical treatment, esp. one with a name ending in -pathy. Now rare.

Medicine. Any more or less distinct method or technique used in the treatment of a specific condition (e.g. chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the…