Remy traces to the Latin Remigius, likely built on remigare, to row, though popular use has long linked the name loosely to remedium, remedy, giving it an added association with healing. Between the two threads runs a sense of steady, effortful care -- work done to move something forward or to mend it.
The qualities of Saturn and Mars are not made better by their Conjunction; being mixed so together, they are confounded, and hurt very much. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)