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单词 autopsorin
释义

autopsorinn.

Forms:

α. 1800s autopsorine.

β. 1800s autopsorin.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: auto- comb. form1, psora n., -in suffix1.
Etymology: < auto- comb. form1 + psora n. + -in suffix1, after French autopsorine and (in β. forms) its model German Autosporin (both 1834 or earlier).Compare the following earlier occurrence of French autopsorine in an English context:1836 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 2 334/1 L'autopsorine is another grand discovery: it consists in giving to each patient some of his own virus in homœopathic doses. N.E.D. (1885) gives the pronunciation as (ǭtǫpsōə·rin) /ɔːtɒpˈsɔərɪn/.
Homeopathy. Obsolete.
A patient's own infective matter, esp. from a lesion of scabies, administered as a homeopathic treatment.
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1849 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 7 338 J. E. Veith considers isopathy to be an overstraining of homœopathy, and says that autopsorine only should be used, as it would be wrong to give the morbid products of one patient to another.
1856 R. D. Hoblyn & I. Hays Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (rev. Amer. ed.) Autopsorin, a homœopathic term to designate that which is given, under the absurd and disgusting doctrine of administering to a patient some of the virus of the disease under which he is labouring.
1881 Pacific Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 24 15 This may be called Autopsorin for sake of distinction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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