The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory
   and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by
   remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the
   symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies
   being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by
   Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.