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Webster 1913 Edition
Homeopathy
Ho-me-op′a-thy
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] likeness of condition or feeling; [GREEK] like (fr. [GREEK] same; cf.
Same
) + [GREEK] to suffer: cf. F. homéopathie
. 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
homœopathy
.] Definition 2024
homeopathy
homeopathy
English
Alternative forms
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.
Translations
system of treating diseases with very small amounts
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