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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Homeopathy \Ho*me*op"a*thy\, n. [Gr. ? likeness of condition or feeling; ? like (fr. ? same cf {Same}) + ? to suffer: cf F. hom['e]opathie. 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 {hom[oe]opathy}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: homeopathy n : a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated [syn: {homoeopathy}] [ant: {allopathy}]
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