Organic Radical
a group of atoms containing one or more atoms of carbon, of which one or more bonds are unsatisfied.
ORGANOTHERAPY. The branch of medical science using animal organs and their extracts for healing purposes. The use of animal tissues as medicines is as old almost as authentic history, and the belief in their efficacy prevailed among almost all races, though their early use was largely superstitious. But modern In music, the most comprehensive and important of all wind instruments. Its history can be traced back to the earliest antiquity. Starting from a small collection of pipes, perhaps even from a syrinx, it has gradually grown in size and complexity till, at the present day, organotherapy may be said to have beone performer has complete control over many thousands of pipes. In its rudigun in the middle of the last century with the discovery of Brown-Sequard ORGANZINE ORINOCO of azure, and gold. It became the banner of the monarchy in the reign of Philip I. that the glands of the body furnish the nally the banner of the abbey of St. blood with useful principles. From that Denis, near Paris, which received many time almost every gland and tissue in important grants from the early French the body has been in investigated, and in kings. gs. Its color was purple with a tinge recent years the grafting afting of glands from animals into the human body has been accompanied by enthusiastic claims.
While progress in the study has added substances of value to our therapeutic resources thyroid extract and adrenaline, for example-the differences and antagonisms between animal and human tis sues, and similar elusive principles have kept organotherapy still in the experimental stage.