HOMOEOPATHY
\hˌə͡ʊmiːˈə͡ʊpəθɪ], \hˌəʊmiːˈəʊpəθɪ], \h_ˌəʊ_m_iː__ˈəʊ_p_ə_θ_ɪ]\
Definitions of HOMOEOPATHY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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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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Same as HOMEOPATHY, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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See Homeopathy, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A mode of treating diseases by the administration of medicines capable of exciting in healthy persons symptoms closely similar to those of the disease for which they are given.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A fanciful doctrine, which maintains, that disordered actions in the human body are to be cured by inducing other disordered actions of a like kind, and this to be accomplished by infinitesimally small doses, often of apparently inert agents; the decillionth part of a grain of charcoal, for example, is an authorized dose. It has also been called Globulism.
By Robley Dunglison
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