Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Biology as concerned with electrical phenomena; that branch of science which treats of the electric currents developed in living organisms.
- noun That phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism in which the actions, feelings, etc., of a person in the mesmeric condition are controlled, or supposed to be controlled, by the will of the operator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.
- noun That phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism, the phenomena of which are supposed to be produced by a form of electricity.
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Examples
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Al – Sahr, magic or the black art proper, gramarye, egromancy, while Al — Simiyá is white magic, electro-biology, a kind of natural and deceptive magic, in which drugs and perfumes exercise an important action.
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Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Chemical galvinism and electro-biology:
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The Sudden Curve: Chemical galvinism and electro-biology
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Then it was no longer an accidental fascination of electro-biology.
Uncle Silas 2003
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Darling went to England and introduced electro-biology, but it was soon identified with Braidism, and in 1853 Durand de Gros, who wrote under the pseudonym of Philips, exhibited the phenomena of electro-biology in several countries, but aroused little attention.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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The phenomena were known under the name of electro-biology.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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I will give another example of this, which completes the chain of phenomena in the natural brain and the natural body I wish to bring under notice in explanation of the true as distinguished from the false, or falsely interpreted, phenomena of hypnotism, mesmerism and electro-biology.
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It is so with the now familiar phenomena of mesmerism or electro-biology; the mind of the person operated on is affected through a material living agent.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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He was far above trickery, and had the reputation of being the soundest living authority upon the strange pseudo-sciences of animal magnetism and electro-biology.
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He was far above trickery, and had the reputation of being the soundest living authority upon the strange pseudo-sciences of animal magnetism and electro-biology.
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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