Allopathetic

Quick meaning: Allopathetic is an adjective meaning Involving or based on allopathy; allopathic.

Meaning

Involving or based on allopathy; allopathic.

Example Sentences

The use of drugs in the modern practice of medicine is allopathetic in nature. The use of purely natural agents in an allopathic manner is now sometimes referred to as "alternative allopathy."

Mrs B., the mother of a family, had been subject to epilepsy for seven years, and notwithstanding every variety of treatment, allopathetic and homœpathetic, she had an attack at least once a month.

The allopathetic doctor, he allowed stimulants; and the homypathetic man, he advised cocoa and weak tea; and the water-doctor would hear of nothing but water, which naturally she is averse to, having scarcely tasted it in all her life.

With regard to the true natural healing practices of Hippocrates versus the practices of allopathetic medicine, it is truly ironic that Allopathic medicine claims Hippocrates of Cos as the 'father of medicine' when the practices of the allopathic school of medicine go totally counter to many of his most prized paradigms.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include allopathic, alleopathic, heteropathic, allelopathic, allelopathetic, allellopathic.

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