[f. ALLOPATHY + -IST.] One who professes or practises allopathy.
1833. J. B. Gilchrist, in Caledonian Mercury, 11 July, 3/5. They [Homæopathists] have seldom lost more than six or ten per cent. of their patients, who were seized with cholera, while the Allopathists (their opponents) were frequently minus thirty, nay fifty per cent. at least.
1844. Laurie, Homœop., Pref. 6. The Allopathist, willing by fair experience to put the system to the test.
1881. Scribn. Mag., XXII. 305/1. The allopathist calls the homeopathist a ‘quack,’ and the latter regards the former as a ‘butcher.’
