Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Treatment of disease with animal endocrine organs or extracts such as insulin and thyroxin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Treatment of disease by extracts or other preparations made from various organs or glands of the sheep or other animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
therapeutic use of theendocrine organs (or glandular extracts) ofanimals
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word organotherapy.
Examples
-
This method of treatment, which consists of making the patient, in whose body some organ is not functioning satisfactorily, consume portions of the said organ, or absorb by injection, preparations of the said organ, is termed organotherapy.
-
Hence, it is Brown-Séquard who laid the foundation of organotherapy, and the rejuvenation treatments that we hear so much about at the present time, had forerunners at an earlier date.
-
Egyptians, a venerable documentary record of the world of many thousand years ago, we shall find numerous evidences to show that the ancient Egyptians made use of organotherapy.
-
"The Royal Pharmacopoeia" of Moses Charras (London ed., 1678), the most scientific work of the day, is full of organotherapy and directions for the preparation of medicines from the most loathsome excretions.
-
In those days thyroid organotherapy was in full development, and this drew the attention of physicians to deficient children.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
-
Hahnemann's pupil, Lux, extended homeopathy to isotherapy, which in modern times celebrated its renascence in organotherapy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
-
This really arose from the primitive beliefs, to which I have already referred as leading to the use of eyebright in diseases of the eye, and cyclamen in diseases of the ear because of its resemblance to that part; and the Egyptian organotherapy had the same basis, -- spleen would cure spleen, heart, heart, etc. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these doctrines of sympathies and antipathies were much in vogue.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
-
[141] See, e.g., a summary of Buschan's comprehensive discussion of the subject of organotherapy (Eulenburg's _Real-Encyclopædie der Gesammten
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
-
Pharmacopoeia "of Moses Charras (London ed., 1678), the most scientific work of the day, is full of organotherapy and directions for the preparation of medicines from the most loathsome excretions.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.