Definition of "allopathy" []

• A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term allopathy is derived from two Greek words: allo meaning opposite and pathos meaning suffering."
• "Osler made more than one verifiable statement regarding homeopathy, as well as what he termed allopathy as a practice of his time, as well as what he saw as a future direction."
• "I am trained in allopathy, but having lived with the adivasis and watched and heard alternative medical practitioners, in all these years."