concept
Homeopathy
homeopathy
also: гомеопатия, homoeopathy
An alternative-medicine system, fashionable among the Russian gentry from the 1830s on, based on infinitesimal 'like cures like' doses; contrasted in this story with 'аллопатия' (mainstream/allopathic medicine), which its amateur practitioners scorned as harmful and mercenary.
Reading notes
- The Bride §45 homeopathy
An alternative-medicine system based on infinitesimal doses, fashionable among the Russian gentry; one of Nina Ivanovna's dabblings, alongside spiritualism, that Nadya once mistook for a sign of hidden depths.