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organotherapy
[ awr-guh-noh-ther-uh-pee, awr-gan-oh- ]
noun
- the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
organotherapy
/ ˌɔːɡənəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk; ˌɔːɡənəʊˈθɛrəpɪ /
noun
- the treatment of disease with extracts of animal endocrine glands
Derived Forms
- organotherapeutic, adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of organotherapy1
Example Sentences
But organotherapy soon fell from favor.
The success was so marked that the German investigator published his cases and, with the public mind interested in organotherapy, they attracted wide-spread attention.
We had a wave of organotherapy a few years ago, and we know now that whatever benefits patients derived from taking heart substance for heart troubles, and brain substance for brain troubles, and kidney for renal diseases, was entirely due to mental influence.
This was the commencement of organotherapy.
Organotherapy was as extensively practiced in China as in Egypt.
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