zomotherapy
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zomotherapy (uncountable)
- (medicine, historical) A regimen of medical treatment that involves prescribing a diet of raw meat in order to fight a disease.
- 1902, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, page 145:
- It seems that in the later stages, zomotherapy is dangerous, the muscle plasma is not tolerated, this being probably due to the fact that the liver functions are insufficient, […]