Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In medicine, a therapeutic method characterized by the use of agents producing effects different from the symptoms of the disease treated. See homeopathy. The name is incorrectly applied, in distinction from
homeopathy , to the traditional school (also called the “regular” or “old” school) of medicine, which opposes the homeopathic theory. Sometimes calledheteropathy .
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable traditional medicine
- n. countable a traditional medical method or treatment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to
homeopathy .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself
Etymologies
- German Allopathie : Greek allos, other; see allo- + Greek patheia, suffering; see -pathy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Osler made more than one verifiable statement regarding homeopathy, as well as what he termed allopathy as a practice of his time, as well as what he saw as a future direction.”
“I am trained in allopathy, but having lived with the adivasis and watched and heard alternative medical practitioners, in all these years.”
“There is effective treatment for OCD in modern medicine (which is referred to as allopathy).”
“Our boats have been in port over 6000 years, waiting for knowledge about the whats and whys of life, until barnacles of ignorance have accumulated to such thickness that the conchologist has called that cake of shells "allopathy" which weighed anchor and turned to the great sea of human credulity to expound, with nothing but conjectures to offer.”
“Medicine, sometimes impertinently, often ignorantly, often carelessly called "allopathy," appropriates everything from every source that can be of the slightest use to anybody who is ailing in any way, or like to be ailing from any cause.”
“The term "allopathy" was used frequently throughout the first half of the 19th century, particularly in the United States, to describe various forms of conventional medicine, even by non-homeopathic practitioners themselves.”
“The term "allopathy" was used frequently throughout the first half of the 19th century, particularly in the United States, to describe various forms of [[Medicine | conventional medicine]], even by non-homeopathic practitioners themselves.”
“Greek (ἄλλος, állos, other, different + πάϑος, páthos, suffering), "allopathy" was meant to be contrasted to his own theory of”
“It looks perfectly relevant to me, based on what the text says: it's apparently a synonym relevant to the era in which the term "allopathy" was mainly in use.”
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