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单词 allopathy
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allopathyn.

Brit. /əˈlɒpəθi/, U.S. /əˈlɑpəθi/, /æˈlɑpəθi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: allo- comb. form, -pathy comb. form.
Etymology: < allo- comb. form + -pathy comb. form, after German Allopathie (1819 or earlier). Compare French allopathie (1826 in a doctoral thesis on Hahnemann's homoeopathic method, or earlier). Compare earlier allopath n., allopathic adj., allopathist n.
Esp. in the terminology of homoeopathists: orthodox medical treatment or practice (esp. as regarded as being based on creating a condition contrary to the one being treated). Also figurative.
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1832 Gen. Index Edinb. Rev. 11/2 Allopathy, the doctrine of curing diseases by contraries, how treated by Hahnemann.
1842 F. Black Princ. & Pract. Homœopathy i. 2 The term Allopathy, as a general term, is applied to the present prevailing system of medicine.
1863 J. G. Holland Lett. to Joneses xx. 291 No man of sense believes that allopathy is all wrong and homœopathy all right.
1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 359/1 Your letters would be antidotal, and thus, by a sort of mental allopathy, beneficial.
1923 Lancet 7 July 26/1 It would be as difficult for the orthodox medical practitioner to draw up his creed of allopathy.
1989 M. Kheel in J. Plant Healing Wounds 109 For convenience, I have used the term ‘western medicine’ to refer to the practice of ‘allopathy’ which has become the orthodoxy of the medical world today.
2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures viii. 165 If there was anything the first generation of osteopaths hated as much as allopathy, it was chiropractic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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