Isopathy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Isopathy is a noun meaning (medicine) The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
Meaning
(medicine) The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
More Meanings
- (medicine) The old theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
- The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
Example Sentences
if the hearing is affected, Isopathy makes you a night-cap trimmed with the ears of a calf!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include virosis, immunopathology, unicism, isoimmunity, immunopathy, immunopathogenesis.
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