For example, a person with a runny nose, aching head and watery eyes might be treated with a medication that reduces or halts such symptoms. Allopathic ideas have existed for two thousand years but only in the past 100 years has it allied with science to become an important form of medicine. Allopathy relies on repeated observations and the use of experiments to justify its therapy. Many specialties emerged in the twentieth century after allopathy displaced other kinds of medicine. One of these specialties was the study of anatomy.
Allopathic anatomy organizes the human body into several distinct systems that function together.
The human body is made up of ten distinct systems, according to allopathic medicine. Parts of each system can be seen in this chart, except for the nervous and reproductive systems. The nervous system, which includes the brain, regulates and coordinates all of the body's activities. Every movement we make, whether involuntary or deliberate, every sensation and even our dreams depend on the nervous system. The reproductive system includes the external sex organs and all related inner structures that are concerned with the production of offspring.