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Science Meets Alternative Medicine: What the Evidence Says About Unconventional Treatments by Wallace Sampson, Lewis Vaughn

allopathy

Allopathy is a term used by American homeopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors and other advocates of alternative health practices to refer to conventional medicine. My Random House Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged edition) defines allopathy as "the method of treating disease by the use of agents that produce effects different from those of the disease treated (opposed to homeopathy)." The word was invented by homeopath Samuel Hahnemann as a term for those who are other than homeopaths. In America, the term has not caught on and is used mainly by "alternative" practitioners and some osteopaths.

further reading

• Misuse of the Term "Allopathy" by William T. Jarvis, Ph.D.

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