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<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.
(01 Mar 1998)
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