PEINOTHERAPY

This 1947 W. B. Saunders Company edition is fraught with brevity and seemingly inappropriate definitions for a medical-specific book. For example, the word SALTATION, which has several meanings, cites the non-medical definition of dancing over the biological process of "abrupt evolutionary change; sudden large-scale mutation."

As you'll see with the word and definition below the practitioner better know the terms by heart because the explication is vague and minimalist.

PEINOTHERAPY

The hunger or starvation cure.



from The American Pocket Medical Dictionary edited by W. A. Newman Dorland


A better definition from the early 20th century can be found here in the "Practitioner's Medical Dictionary" by George Milbry Gould: "The cure of disease by deprivation of food."