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HOMEOPATHY
homeopathy, homoeopathy
(noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
homeopathy (countable and uncountable, plural homeopathies)
A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.
Antonym: allopathy
Source: Wiktionary
Ho*me*op"a*thy, n. Etym: [Gr. Same) + homéopathie. See Pathos.] (Med.)
Definition: 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 homoepathy.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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