Allopathy

The term allopathy is derived from two Greek words: allo meaning opposite and pathos meaning suffering.

Osler made more than one verifiable statement regarding homeopathy, as well as what he termed allopathy as a practice of his time, as well as what he saw as a future direction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I am trained in allopathy, but having lived with the adivasis and watched and heard alternative medical practitioners, in all these years. ❋ Anjali (2007)

There is effective treatment for OCD in modern medicine (which is referred to as allopathy). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our boats have been in port over 6000 years, waiting for knowledge about the whats and whys of life, until barnacles of ignorance have accumulated to such thickness that the conchologist has called that cake of shells "allopathy" which weighed anchor and turned to the great sea of human credulity to expound, with nothing but conjectures to offer. ❋ Unknown (1872)

Medicine, sometimes impertinently, often ignorantly, often carelessly called "allopathy," appropriates everything from every source that can be of the slightest use to anybody who is ailing in any way, or like to be ailing from any cause. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

The term "allopathy" was used frequently throughout the first half of the 19th century, particularly in the United States, to describe various forms of [[Medicine | conventional medicine]], even by non-homeopathic practitioners themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term "allopathy" was used frequently throughout the first half of the 19th century, particularly in the United States, to describe various forms of conventional medicine, even by non-homeopathic practitioners themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Greek (ἄλλος, állos, other, different + πάϑος, páthos, suffering), "allopathy" was meant to be contrasted to his own theory of ❋ Unknown (2009)