organotherapy Med.
(ˌɔːgənəʊˈθɛrəpɪ)
[f. organo- + therapy.]
Treatment by the administration of preparations made from animal organs, esp. glands.
| 1896 Med. Times & Hosp. Gaz. XXIV. 545/2 The belief..that diseases arising from a lack of the normal secretion of a certain gland, may at times be treated with benefit by administering the secretion of that gland from lower animals..forms the basis of modern organotherapy. 1915 [see ketone 2]. 1939 M. A. Goldzieher Endocrine Glands i. 1 Organotherapy is as old as mankind and is used by primitive peoples to-day. 1958 Internat. Jrnl. Fertility III. 315 It is difficult to determine the incidence of endocrine disorders in studies of sterility. It is largely for this reason that organotherapy is either neglected or applied empirically. 1968 Guardian 27 Apr. 7/6 Organotherapy—the use of organs, animal or human, as a form of treatment. |
Hence ˌorganotheraˈpeutic, -ˈtherapic adjs., of or pertaining to organotherapy; ˌorganotheraˈpeutics n. pl. = organotherapy.
| 1900 Lancet 25 Aug. 610/2 Dr. J. G. Soutar..regarded the subject of organo-therapeutics as one of great importance. 1905 Ibid. 19 Aug. 554/2 Tests whereby organo-therapeutic substances might be recognized. 1908 Practitioner Sept. 428 All forms of medical treatment of this affection, whether hygienic, dietetic, medicinal, organo⁓therapic, or electrical in nature, are unsatisfactory. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 798/2 The success which has been achieved has led to the use of many other organs in a raw or compressed form, or as extracts, in other diseases... To this method of treatment the name of organo-therapeutics or opo-therapy has been given. 1923 H. R. Harrower Index of Organotherapy 26 Measures that I know have been unusually effective..are not necessarily organotherapeutic. 1928 F. W. Broderick Dental Med. xi. 223 There may exist..certain definitely recognisable conditions in which appropriate organotherapeutic and other measures will be extremely useful. 1934 Q. Cumulative Index Med. XV. 934/2 Action of certain organotherapeutic preparations on coronary vessels of isolated heart of animals and of man. |