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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Treatment of disease by means of extracts made from the various glands and organs of animals. The most commonly used extracts of this kind are from the thyroid gland, the suprarenal capsule, the testicle, and the ovary. Also called
organotherapy .
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We ourselves, however, within a little more than a decade, had a phase of opotherapy -- how much less absurd it seems under that high-sounding Greek term -- that was apparently very learned in its scientific aspects yet quite as absurd as many phases of old-time therapy, as we look at it.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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