Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
- noun The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
- noun The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The system that treats a
disease by means of thevirus of the same disease. - noun medicine The old theory of curing a diseased
organ by eating theanalogous organ of ahealthy animal. - noun The
doctrine that thepower oftherapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
Etymologies
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iso- + -pathy
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Examples
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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
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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