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Definition of Homeopathy

1. 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.

Definition of Homeopathy

1. 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.

Definition of Homeopathy

1. Noun. (pseudoscience) a system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms. ¹

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Definition of Homeopathy

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Medical Definition of Homeopathy

1. 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. Alternative forms: homoepathy. Origin: Gr. Likeness of condition or feeling; like (fr. Same; cf. Same) + to suffer: cf. F. Homeopathie. See Pathos. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Homeopathy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"COURSES IN homeopathy Elective courses in homeopathy are offered upon the ... Instruction in homeopathy is in charge of two professors, a Professor if ..."

2. Proceedings of the Conference on Social Insurance by Royal Meeker, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (1917)
"Dr. HILLS COLE, chairman committee on health insurance, American Institute of homeopathy. I want to speak particularly of Dr. Lambert's remarks. ..."

3. Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the by Walter Barlow Stevens (1921)
"... of Three Generations—homeopathy Introduced—The Eclectic School—A Congressman's Border Remedy in the Camps—Wy man's Wofk as Health Officer of World-Wide ..."

4. Pamphlets by Gaylord Dewitt Beebe, Prosper Bender, Gordon Maxwell Christine, Henry Newell Guernsey (1865)
"AMERICAN INSTITUTE OE homeopathy. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. DELIVERED AT SARATOGA SPRINGS ... homeopathy."

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