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One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

One who believes in hylopathism.

Idiopathic. [R.]

Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic. -- Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv.

individual, characteristic or affection. All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.

Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [R.]

The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.

See Kinesiatrics.

The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents.

Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to motorpathy.

Kinesiatrics.

Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

Same as Myopathia.

Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.

An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.

A practitioner of osteopathy.