HOMEOPATHY
\hˌə͡ʊmiːˈɒpəθɪ], \hˌəʊmiːˈɒpəθɪ], \h_ˌəʊ_m_iː__ˈɒ_p_ə_θ_ɪ]\
Definitions of HOMEOPATHY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
By Princeton University
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a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A system of therapeutics founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), based on the Law of Similars where "like cures like". Diseases are treated by highly diluted substances that cause, in healthy persons, symptoms like those of the disease to be treated. The dilutions are repeated so many times that there is less than one molecule per dose and it is suggested that benefit is from the energetic life force of the original substance.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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System of administering frequently, small doses of drugs, which in a healthy person, it is alleged, will produce the same symptoms that are thus treated.
By William R. Warner
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The system of curing diseases by small quantities of those drugs which excite symptoms similar to those of the disease.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Homeopathic.
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A system of medicine founded on the principle that "like cures like" and prescribing minute doses of medicines that would produce in a healthy person symptoms like those of the disease to be cured.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A system which professes to cure diseases by the administration in minute doses of medicines that would induce them or similar symptoms in healthy persons.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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System which professes to cure by infinitesimal doses of medicines which are capable of producing symptoms like those of the disease treated.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The therapeutical doctrine that certain morbid conditions may be corrected by the use of drugs that, in health, produce similar conditions; of Hahnemann, a system of medical practice based on the dogma that such a doctrine is the only one to be followed in therapeutics. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
