[mod. f. (first used in Ger. (allopathie) by Hahnemann) Gr. ἄλλος other, different + -πάθεια, f. πάθος suffering.] ‘The curing of a diseased action by the inducing of another of a different kind, yet not necessarily diseased.’ Syd. Soc. Lex. A term applied by homœeopathists to the ordinary or traditional medical practice, and to a certain extent in common use to distinguish it from HOMŒOPATHY.
1842. Black, Homœop., i. 2. The term Allopathy, as a general term, is applied to the present prevailing system of medicine.
1863. J. Holland, Lett. Joneses, xx. 291. No man of sense believes that allopathy is all wrong and homœopathy all right.
