ISOPATHY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.

2.
n.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

3.
n.

The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.


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