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-pathy
repr. Gr. -πάθεια, lit. ‘suffering, feeling’, the second element of the word homœopathy (Gr. ὀµοιοπάθεια the quality of suffering or feeling alike, the having of like affections, sympathy), extended to allopathy, and applied, with the sense ‘method of cure, curative treatment’, to other compounds, as hydropathy, kinesipathy, electropathy, etc.
1863Kingsley Water-Bab. iv, [They tried] Hydropathy..Pyropathy, as successfully employed by the old inquisitors to cure the malady of thought... Geopathy, or burying him. Atmopathy, or steaming him... With all other ipathies and opathies which Noodle has invented, and Foodle tried. 1888St. James's Gaz. 20 Sept., Pelopathy, or treatment by means of mud baths... Raxopathy, or the grape-cure, is more favoured in vine-producing countries than it is in England. Glossopathy is now added to the list..[to express] the good effects which dogs can produce upon suffering humanity by applying their tongues to wounds and sores. This gentleman is now collecting a staff of suitable dogs, with a view to opening a glossopathic establishment in the neighbourhood of Zurich. 1900Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/1 Never before..has light treatment taken definite shape as it is undoubtedly doing now in a distinct ‘pathy’, which our contemporary christens ‘photopathy’.
2. Forming the names of bodily disorders of a specified part (as myopathy) or kind (idiopathy). |