Is allopathic a legitimate term to use to describe conventional medicine?
This discussion covers many related subjects, so be patient… Allopathic, as a term, can be found in a dictionary, along with the term homeopathic. Thus, it is an accepted term at the grammatical level. The entire argument of allopathic vs. homeopathic medicine is, however, flawed, primarily because we, as moderns, lack any sort of reference to medicine as it was practiced at the time the term homeopathy was coined. If we look at conventional medicine of the period (pre-19th century), we find a world in which a great deal is known about anatomy, but very little about physiology. Humans and animals had been studied in great detail for thousands of years, so people knew that we had livers, hearts, and spleens, and where they lay in the body. But no one had properly determined what these organs actually did. Medicine had developed, over thousands of years, treatments that were based on beliefs about how the body and individual organs operated, what methods could be used to treat specific
