Empirics [noun]

Everything was conjecture, and that which rested on the evidence of facts was by the empirics received with enthusiasm.

Men are imaginary invalids, whose weakness empirics are interested to encourage, in order to have sale for their drugs.

Their antagonists, the Empirics, ridiculed such knowledge as fanciful or unattainable, and relied on experience alone.

Those who have treated of the sciences have been either empirics or dogmatical.

In those days the physicians were divided into three schools: empirics, dogmatists, and methodists.

How many a clever man becomes the dupe of empirics for want of a little science.

The empirics were of both sexes, and of foreign extraction as well as native.

All your empirics could never do the like cure upon the gout the rack did in England, or your Scotch boot.

Empirics, ignorant barbers, and men of that sort, are said to have especially employed it.

We could only see ourselves from a surface point of view, and, in our empirics, we had no official assistance.