What's the difference between allopathically and allopathy?

Allopathically


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A rural area of Bangladesh with a population of 191,000 had 643 health care providers, of whom 324 (50%) practiced allopathic (Western) medicine, 152 (24%) were spiritualists, 109 (17%) were herbalists, and 58 (9%) were homeopaths.
  • (2) All patients entered into the study had illness of less than 72 hours' duration and no prior allopathic drug therapy.
  • (3) Non allopathic advice or treatment were sought by 48 percent of Crohn's disease patients (7 percent in controls).
  • (4) Allopathic medicine and its practitioners, therefore, are less likely to displace traditional curing practices than to become integrated into a network characterized by continued pluralism.
  • (5) He argued that “escalating cost of allopathic drugs is still a challenge to provide quality patient care with minimal resources.
  • (6) Owing mainly to a declining interest in primary care by young MDs, allopathic postdoctoral program directors, particularly in primary care specialties, began to actively recruit osteopathic physicians.
  • (7) In the mid-1800s, allopathic physicians strengthened their professional position by regulating physicians and forming the American Medical Association.
  • (8) Acute gastroenteritis, septicaemia, abortions, snake bite and allopathic and indigenous medicines were important causes of acute tubular necrosis.
  • (9) It has reached the point where two out of every three DOs currently training in a primary care residency can be found in an allopathic program.
  • (10) The majority of patient were under modern allopathic treatment before accepting the Unani medicine.
  • (11) While some of the literature diverges from mainstream allopathic medicine, most popular publications succeed in presenting coherent, reasoned, and documented viewpoints.
  • (12) The placebo effect occurs not only within sugar pills but is a constant phenomenon with every allopathic drug.
  • (13) We tested part of this functional explanation by sending trained 'pseudo-patients' to 764 Ayurvedic and allopathic physicians across Sri Lanka.
  • (14) Patients presenting to allopathic psychiatric centers in India were studied to determine whether patterns of help seeking could be predicted from the conceptual model by which they understood their illness.
  • (15) The main providers of health care in Sierra Leone are traditional medical services, allopathic private medical services, government medical services in rural health centers, public health programs in rural areas, and hospitals in urban areas.
  • (16) It documents continuity of ancient ayurvedic ideas and practices as well as syncretism between ayurvedic and allopathic (Western, biomedical) traditions in modern Nepal.
  • (17) This article documents distributional patterns of allopathic family practice physicians (including general practitioners) in Texas as compared with allopathic physicians in all other medical specialties in the state during the period 1969-1973, for which there are reliable data.
  • (18) A final suggestion is to examine how allopathic medicine might be interrelated better with other medical systems.
  • (19) Though no patients treated were on antiepileptic treatment at baseline, 71% claimed to have sought the help of allopathic practitioners at some point in the past, 35% 'many times'.
  • (20) The author suggests consideration of personality differences, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, as a possible causative factor in differences between the allopathic and osteopathic segments of medicine.

Allopathy


Definition:

  • (n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Popular beliefs about the cause of jaundice appear to have evolved to fit therapeutic practices adopted by vaidyas from allopathy.
  • (2) It is applicable in the fields of homoepathy and allopathy, however, there are many different ways of treatment.
  • (3) To insure that allopathy is properly understood and utilized within the pluralistic context, the identification and training of coordinating personnel who may specialize in diagnosis or referral demonstrates promise.
  • (4) The purpose of this article is to show the advancement in knowledge of cesarean sections among African traditional healers before the advent of colonialism and introduction of scientific medicine (allopathy) to Africa.
  • (5) In general, ayurveda can play an effective complementary role to allopathy’s emergency medical care system,” says Vasudevan, who believes the lowest economic strata can benefit the most from these choices in treatment.

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