Med. [ad. F. zomothérapie, f. Gr. ζωμός soup + θεραπεία THERAPY.] The use of raw meat, or the juice expressed from it, in the treatment of tuberculosis. Hence Zomotherapeutic a., pertaining to zomotherapy.
1900. Lancet, 27 Oct., 1242/2. The experiments of M. Richet and M. Héricourt relative to the use of raw meat as a prophylactic and curative substance in tuberculosis…. Such treatment these observers have called ‘zomotherapy.’ Ibid. At various stages of the zomotherapeutic treatment.
