Designating a school of medical thought originating in ancient Greece and Rome and holding that treatment should be based on observation and…

Designating a school of medical thought originating in ancient Greece and Rome and holding that treatment should be based on observation and…

= dogmatic, adj. 1. Now historical and rare.

Proceeding upon principles accepted a priori as true, instead of being founded upon experience or induction, as dogmatic philosophy, dogmatic medicine…

Medicine. Designating a theory of medicine according to which diseases are believed to arise from deficiency or excess of nervous excitement, and…

Of or pertaining to the system of medicine practised by Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts (1769–1843). (Often erroneously spelt Thompsonian.)

History of Science. Designating or relating to a school of (originally ancient Greek) physicians who held that an invisible substance or spirit (cf. p…

of or pertaining to the solidists or their theory.

Alternative Medicine. = biochemic, adj. 2.

Medicine. Designating, relating to, or practising surgery intended to cure chronic disease by relieving supposed irritation of the external orifices…

Of or relating to physiotherapy or physiatry.

Of or relating to naturopathy.

relating to orgonomy.

Of or relating to bioethics.