the method of treating disease by the use of agents that produce effects different from those of the disease treated (opposed to ).
The pesky hanger-on evidently possessed an understanding of my immune system that allopathic medicine has yet to match.
An Epidemic of Absence: Destroying the Bugs in Our Bodies Can Be Dangerous to Our Health Moises Velasquez-Manoff September 8, 2012
The best way to settle the quarrel between capital and labor is by allopathic doses of Peter-Cooperism.
How to Succeed Orison Swett Marden
We’ll give ’em medicine in allopathic doses, and it will be a case of ‘kill or cure.’
Bert Wilson on the Gridiron J. W. Duffield
The following selections from the allopathic works will prove what is above stated.
The American Reformed Cattle Doctor George Dadd
But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines.
Mark Twain’s Speeches Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There are about one hundred women physicians in the State, seventy-five allopathic and the rest belonging to other schools.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Various
That comes of avoiding all allopathic messes like the devil.
Lady Rose’s Daughter Mrs. Humphry Ward
Witness Job, whose wife had nothing to prescribe for his carbuncles but allopathic doses of profanity!
The Wedding Ring T. De Witt Talmage
Pneumonia followed; physicians came with torments of plasters and allopathic dosings that brought no relief.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete Albert Bigelow Paine
Benninghausen is an admirable example of the application of the allopathic principle to penology.
The Vagrancy Problem. William Harbutt Dawson
of, relating to, or used in allopathy
the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease Compare homeopathy
1830, from French allopathique (see allopathy). Related: Allopathically.
1842, “treatment of disease by remedies that produce effects opposite to the symptoms,” from German Allopathie (Hahnemann), from Greek allos “other” (see alias) + -patheia, “suffering, disease, feeling” (see -pathy). The term applied by homeopathists to traditional medicine.
allopathy al·lop·a·thy (ə-lŏp’ə-thē)
A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects antagonistic to those caused by the disease itself.
al’lo·path’ic (āl’ə-pāth’ĭk) adj.
the method of treating disease by the use of agents that produce effects different from those of the disease treated (opposed to ). Historical Examples A school of medicine midway between allopathy and Christian Science. The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce Christian Science and allopathy don’t mix,’ I says, ‘and you’d starve, that’s what you’d do. […]
originating in or occupying different geographical areas. Historical Examples Smilisca sila and puma are allopatric, whereas S. sordida is broadly sympatric with both of those species. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca William E. Duellman The majority of the species are allopatric and differ primarily in color patterns. A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus […]
originating in or occupying different geographical areas. adjective (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another Compare sympatric allopatric (āl’ə-pāt’rĭk) Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Allopatric populations of related organisms are unable to interbreed because of geographic separation. ◇ The development of new […]
living or growing at different depths.