Noah Webster
Treatment
TRE'ATMENT, noun Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.
1. Usage; manner of using; good of bad behavior towards.
Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
2. Manner of applying remedies to cure; mode or course pursued to check and destroy; as the treatment of a disease.
3. Manner of applying remedies to; as the treatment of a patient.