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Isopathy

Isopathy \I*sop"a*thy\, n. [Iso- + Gr. ? suffering.] (Med.)

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

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

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

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isopathy

n. 1 (context medicine English) The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease. 2 (context medicine English) 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.