heteropathyn.
/hɛtəˈrɒpəθi/ 1. Medicine. = allopathy n.: opposed to homœopathy.
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1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Heteropathy, the method of attempting to remove one disease by inducing a different one.
2. Pathology. (See quot. 1886.)
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1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Heteropathy..Berthold's term for the form of idiosyncrasy in which the organic susceptibility behaves itself in a different fashion to the normal in the presence of any irritation.
3. Antipathy or aversion excited by suffering: opposed to sympathy.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > feeling against or a settled dislike > [noun] > antipathy felt towards those who suffer
heteropathy1874
1874 F. P. Cobbe in Theol. Rev. Jan. 74 At the sight of pain animals generally feel an impulse to destroy rather than to help. This emotion will be indicated by the term Heteropathy.
1881 F. P. Cobbe Duties of Women iv. 118 It is astonishing and horrible to witness how the deep-seated frightful human passion, which I have elsewhere named Heteropathy, develops itself in such circumstances.
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