'Isopathy' definitions:

Definition of 'Isopathy'

From: GCIDE
  • Isopathy \I*sop"a*thy\, n. [Iso- + Gr. ? suffering.] (Med.) (a) The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease. (b) The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. --Mayne. (c) The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease. [1913 Webster]