simillimumn.
/sɪˈmɪlᵻməm/, U.S. /sɪˈmɪləməm/ Homeopathy.
A homeopathic remedy that produces symptoms similar (or most similar) to those of a disease it is used to treat; (also) a disease treated with such a remedy. Cf. similar n. 3.
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1845 C. J. Hempel tr. S. Hahnemann Chronic Dis. I. 196 Psorin is a simillimum [Ger. ein simillimum] of the itch virus.
1849 R. E. Dudgeon tr. S. Hahnemann Organon of Med. 157 But even granting this could be done..the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a simillimum [Ger. nur durch ein Simillimum dem Simillimo entgegen gesetzt].
1881 Trans. World's Homœopathic Convent. I. 295 It supplies the student with an endless variety of similima from which he may choose that corresponding to his case.
1891 J. C. Burnett Greater Dis. Liver 42 With me it is an axiom to relieve uncomfortable or dangerous organ-states with simple organ-remedies, leaving the more remote and deeper-going to be..treated, if possible, with its pathological simillimum.
1902 Homeopathic Jrnl. Obstetr. Gynecol. & Pediatrics 24 354 Hereafter I shall before resorting to any surgical expedient, patiently try thermal baths and the simillimums, such as gelsemium, pulsatilla, apiol, [etc.].
1972 D. V. Tansley Radionics viii. 84 This may be dispersed radionically or with the appropriate homoeopathic similimum.
2007 D. Curtin in D. Owen Princ. & Pract. Homeopathy xiv. 210/1 When the simillimum is prescribed it will, if it is not blocked, produce a reaction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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