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isopathy (medicine)


isopathy
<medicine> The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.

The 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.

Origin: Iso- + Gr. Suffering.

Source: Websters Dictionary