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Meaning of isopathy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
  2. 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.

Examples

“if the hearing is affected, Isopathy makes you a night-cap trimmed with the ears of a calf!”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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