English Explanatory Dictionary

isopathy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
  2. The old theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
  3. The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

Word forms

isopathy

Etymology

From iso- + -pathy.

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