English Explanatory Dictionary

specificker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A homoeopathic practitioner who sought to ascertain the aetiologies of diseases, focusing on the symptoms most regularly associated with their diagnosis (to the exclusion of peripheral and occasional symptoms), and who, for their treatment, selected remedies (administered in more-or-less undiluted form) on the basis of their general physiological effects, ignoring incidental and side-effects.
adj
  1. comparative form of specific: more specific
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of specificker.

Pronunciation

/spɛˈsɪfɪkə/

Word forms

specificker specifickers

Etymology

From specific (“specific remedy”) + -er, originally a calque of German Spezifiker, used by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843).

Related words

ab usu in morbis allopathy blisterism complex-prescriptionism doctrine of specifics dynamopathy galvanism globulism Hahnemannian Hahnemannic Hahnemannism Hahnemannist homoeodylism homoeodynamics homoeopathicity homoeopharmacopathy homoeorganics homoeosympathy homoeotherapeia idiopathy macro-dosist Materia Medica médecine substitutive mesmerism micro-dosist mother tincture organopathist pathogenesis pilulism pure Rademacherian repertorium routinist Schmidian similia similibus curantur substitutivist therapeutics Trousseauist usus in morbis
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