organotherapy

[awr-guh-noh-ther-uh-pee, awr-gan-oh-]

noun

1. 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

1. the treatment of disease with extracts of animal endocrine glands

Other Word Forms

• organotherapeutic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of organotherapy¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; organo- + therapy

Example Sentences

But organotherapy soon fell from favor.

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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.

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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.

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This was the commencement of organotherapy.

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Organotherapy was as extensively practiced in China as in Egypt.

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