Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The theory that disease may be cured by the product of the disease, as smallpox by minute doses of variolous matter; also, the theory that a diseased organ may be cured by eating the same organ of a healthy animal.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
- n. medicine The old theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
- n. The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
- n. The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
- n. The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
Etymologies
- iso- + -pathy (Wiktionary)
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“But even with her the idea was not an original one, because the principle of isopathy (curing a disease with its own disease products) was explicitly taught a hundred years before that by”
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