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Webster 1913 Edition
Isopathy
I-sop′a-thy
,Noun.
[
Iso-
+ Gr. [GREEK] suffering.] (Med.)
(a)
The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
(b)
The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
Mayne.
(c)
The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
Definition 2024
isopathy
isopathy
English
Noun
isopathy (uncountable)
- (medicine) The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
- (medicine) The old theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mayne to this entry?)
- The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.