transitive. To treat surgically or medically with the purpose of healing (a disease, or a patient). Obsolete.

To dress (a wound); to attend to as a surgeon or ‘leech’. Obsolete.

transitive. To give medical care or attention to (a person or animal, or a part of the body); to treat (a disease or medical condition). Now chiefly…

transitive. To give medical care or attention to (a person or animal); to dose up with something. Cf. sense 3a. Now chiefly U.S. colloquial.

To deal with in order to effect some particular result. To deal with or operate upon (a disease or affection, a part of the body, or a person) in…

transitive. slang. To examine or treat (a person) medically. Now rare.