Curer

noun

1. A physician; one who heals. One who preserves provisions, as beef, fish, and the like, from putrefaction, by means of salt or in any other manner.
2. One who cures; a healer; a physician.
3. One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
4. A healer.
5. A person who, or device which preserves food by curing.