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Isopathy vs Homeopathy - What's the difference?

isopathy | homeopathy |

As nouns the difference between isopathy and homeopathy

is that isopathy is (medicine) the system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease while homeopathy is a system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.

isopathy

English

Noun

(-)
  • (medicine) The system that treats a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
  • (medicine) The old theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
    • (Mayne)
  • The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
    • (Webster 1913)

    homeopathy

    English

    (wikipedia homeopathy)

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (homeopathies)
  • A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.

    • Derived terms

    * homeopath * homeopathist * homeopathic * homeopathically