CHAPTER XIII 



ORGANOTHERAPY 



The treatment of ductless glandular diseases by 

 means of extracts of appropriate glands dates back 

 to Brown-Sequard's investigations in 1889, and 

 Brown-Sequard merely revived the old "humoral" 

 view of disease. Hippocrates advocated the efficacy 

 of various organs, and Hahnemann, the originator 

 of homeopathy, built up a subdivision of the sub- 

 ject, isopathy, which dealt with diseased organs, 

 and with their cure by the administration of fresh 

 organs. Is your liver out of joint? Then we will 

 prescribe the liver of a wolf. Have you a tremor? 

 The brain of a hare will put you on your feet again. 

 Are you a sufferer from dyspepsia? Take the lung 

 of a fox and you will get well. Is your stomach 

 misbehaving? Take rennin. 



The "humoral" philosophy throve, made many 

 converts, did some good and very much mischief, 

 and gradually died out. Brown-Sequard brought it 

 to light again; but, let us add, in quite a modern 

 form, and with reasons for its revival drawn from 

 the knowledge of the nineteenth and not the ninth 



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