Homeopathy

[,həʊmɪ'ɒpəθɪ;hɒm-] or [,homɪ'ɑpəθi]

Definition

(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.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

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Definition

n. the system of curing diseases by small quantities of those drugs which excite symptoms similar to those of the disease.—ns. Hō′meopath Homeop′athist one who believes in or practises homeopathy.—adj. Homeopath′ic of or pertaining to homeopathy.—adv. Homeopath′ically.

Typist: Nicholas