On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Eva Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes I know that modern medicine is the same as allopathy :-)
Isn't allopathy a pejorative term? Hmm.. Wikipedia seems to agree with me, not that that's saying much, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopathic_medicine Allopathic medicine is a term coined by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) in 1810 to refer to the practice of conventional medicine (and especially the practices now referred to as heroic medicine). While this term was rejected by mainstream physicians, it was adopted by physicians with unconventional training as a pejorative term to refer to physicians who had undergone a more traditional course of education.[1] [...]
