ALLOPATHY

n. A?l-lo?p‘a?th-i?, md0os, pain or disease. Lat., allopath i a. Allopathie. It, allopatia. Sp., alopatia. 1. Pain or disease due to an agency working on the body from without. [A.322.] 2. Disease in one part of the body occurring as the consequence of disease or injury in another part (e. g., in the liver as the result of injury to the head); also fracture by contrecoup. [A, 322.] 3. That therapeutical doctrine which teaches that diseases are to be cured by establishing artificial morbid conditions of an opposite character. Some hom ceo pat hists falsely apply the term to all medical practice which does not rest upon their own doctrine. Cf. Homæ- OPATHY and Isoparny.