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4 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Homoeopathic \Ho`m[oe]*o*path"ic\, a., Homoeopathist \Ho`m[oe]*op"a*thist\, n., Homoeopathy \Ho`m[oe]*op"a*thy\, n. Same as {Homeopathic}, {Homeopathist}, {Homeopathy}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: homoeopathy 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: {homeopathy}] [ant: {allopathy}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not
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