hom[oe]opathy
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Homeopathy \Ho*me*op"a*thy\, n. [Gr. ? likeness of condition or
feeling; ? like (fr. ? same; cf. {Same}) + ? to suffer: cf.
F. hom['e]opathie. See {Pathos}.] (Med.)
The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and
its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde)
by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar
to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient
suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute
doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and
is opposed to {allopathy}, or {heteropathy}. [Written also
{hom[oe]opathy}.]
[1913 Webster]
from
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and
Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly
inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they
can not.
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