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allopathy

the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

allopathy

[ə′läp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
A system of medicine that employs remedies whose effects are unlike those of the disease, in contrast to homeopathy.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Allopathy

 

a term introduced by the German physician S. Hahnemann to designate a trend in medicine—the use of medicines producing symptoms opposite to the symptoms of the given disease—which he contrasted to homeopathy. Such an opposition is groundless for modern medicine, and the use of the term is incompetent, since in treating patients the purpose is to eliminate the pathologic process, not to manifest it.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Though it is a valid logic that reasoning directly from data that is gathered by controlled structure, as is true of science based trials in allopathy, is not always accurate as it's with many biases and confounders, however the statistical testing helps to get beyond mere correlation to cause-and-effect and eliminate most of these concerns.
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She told lawmakers that the law would be applicable to all allopathy and homeopathy doctors and practitioners, hakeems, hair transplant hospitals, clinic-owners and practitioners, beauty parlour-owners and beauticians, patients, gyms, pharmacists, nurses and other paramedical staff, and patients would be stakeholders in the bill.
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Elaborating, he says: "These quacks can be divided into three categories: (a) almost uneducated, untrained people, who spend some months with a doctor or a quack, and then open their own clinics; (b) homoeopaths and hakeems, practising allopathy; and (c) paramedics, who are allowed limited medication tasks under the law."
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