ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 discussed nineteenth-century developments in medical knowledge, in particular the two modes associated with the hospitals and with public health, the latter being taken over by medicine in the third quarter of the century. Of all the plethora of healing modes and cosmologies which had been available in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by the end of the nineteenth century one mode of healing, itself now being transformed into biomedicine, came to dominate all others. This mode is sometimes referred to as allopathic (literally, treatment by opposites) to distinguish it from other modes, notably homoeopathy (treatment by similarities; see also Chapter 11).
