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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
homoeopathy
noun
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▪ Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy, immunology and genetics.
▪ And the meaning was that homoeopathy is a load of wind.
▪ His medical special interests had been embryology, paediatrics, and homoeopathy.
▪ Isn't it strange how reading less about homoeopathy makes one feel better?
▪ Many of the same plants are used in both herbalism and homoeopathy but the prescribing indications can be very different.
▪ Nor was it an assessment of homoeopathy alone, but of homoeopathy in combination with avoidance of exposure to the sensitizing organism.
▪ Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider.
▪ The omission of these chapters will not detract from your general appreciation of homoeopathy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
homoeopathy

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.]

Wiktionary
homoeopathy

n. (alternative spelling of homeopathy English)

WordNet
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]

Usage examples of "homoeopathy".

All which is an additional reason for making a collection of the incredibly curious literature of Homoeopathy before that pseudological inanity has faded out like so many other delusions.

But to suppose that men with minds so constituted as to accept such statements and embrace such doctrines as make up the so-called science of Homoeopathy are more competent than others to regulate the circumstances which influence the human body in health and disease, would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners.

Homoeopathy has come before our public at a period when the growing spirit of eclecticism has prepared many ingenious and honest minds to listen to all new doctrines with a candor liable to degenerate into weakness.

Homoeopathic doctrines, and that I am represented as one of the warmest partisans of Homoeopathy in France.

I spurn far from me everything which relates to that charlatanism called Homoeopathy, for these pretended doctrines cannot endure the scrutiny of wise and enlightened persons, who are guided by honorable sentiments in the practice of the noblest of arts.

Whether or not those who countenance Homoeopathy are guilty of this injustice towards others, the second of these Lectures may afford them some means of determining.

Besides, as arguments in favor of Homoeopathy are constantly addressed to the public in journals, pamphlets, and even lectures, by inexperienced dilettanti, the same channel must be open to all its opponents.

By a parallel movement, some of those who have become medical infidels pass over to the mystic band of believers in the fancied miracles of Homoeopathy.

Curie in October, 1839, about eight years after its introduction into the country, that there were eighteen Homoeopathic physicians in the United Kingdom, of whom only three were to be found out of London, and that many of these practised Homoeopathy in secret.

A tincture is also made from the fresh flowering plant of Gentiana quinqueflora (Five-flowered Gentian) and used in homoeopathy as a tonic and stomachic, and in intermittent fevers.

She had high hopes of evening classes, but evidently her sort of man does not like homoeopathy, art history or local history.