Allopathy

(al-lop'a-the.) [Gr. allos, another, and pathos, suffering.] (Med.) A term introduced to describe the ordinary system of medical practice in opposition to Homœopathy. The difference consists in the allopathists prescribing substances which, of their own nature, are calculated to remove symptoms like those of the disease to be cured; while the homœopathists employ medicines which, in the normal state of the patient, are calculated to produce these symptoms. [s. 21]