allopath
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of allopath
1820–30; < German, back formation from Allopathie allopathy
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Yet virtually every action taken by the allopath is a conscious compromise between the potential harm of the therapy and its potential benefit.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon
In modern times doctors have disagreed with each other often enough to warrant laymen in questioning the infallibility of any individual healer or any sect, whether homeopath, allopath, eclectic, osteopath, or scientist.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
He had been at first treated by an allopath, then, afterwards, by a homœopath.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
If, for instance, there is a catarrhal affection of the serous and mucous membranes of the respiratory tract accompanied by fever, the allopath will give quinine in large doses to change this condition.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
And he poured between the protesting lips of Thomas Cathcart Blake a nauseating draught of something that was most malodorous; for Dr. DeLancey was an allopath, and a good one.
From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne
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