单词 | allopath |
释义 | allopathn. A practitioner or advocate of allopathy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > others empiric?c1425 empiricista1713 allopathist1828 allopath1830 alloeopathist1835 bioethicist1973 1830 Edinb. Rev. 50 519 The common large-dose-dispensing Allopath. 1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 383 They might have gone so far..under pre-notional impressions, as the alliterative allopath, who,..opposing the progress of science called vaccination, declared that some of its patients coughed like cows, and bellowed like bulls. 1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors xv. 353 The distinction between the homeopaths and allopaths..has been summed up satirically, thus: The patients of the homeopaths died of the disease and the patients of the allopaths died of the cure. 1987 M. Das Cyclones xii. 56 ‘Doctor Sahib!’ exclaimed Ravi, looking at the gate. Sudhir went out and received the first allopath to visit Kusumpur. 2000 K. R. Pelletier Best Alternative Med. (2002) i. viii. 200 Homeopaths use lab tests much less frequently than do allopaths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1830 |
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