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electro-biology|ɪˌlɛktrəʊbaɪˈɒlədʒɪ|
[f. prec. + biology.]
1. The branch of electricity which deals with the electrical phenomena of living beings; = electro-physiology (see electro-).
1849Smee (title) Elements of Electro-biology. 1881in Nature XXIV. 39 [The first number of L'Electricien contains] an interesting article on electrobiology.
2. The name given about 1845 to a form of ‘animal magnetism’ or hypnotism, in which unconsciousness was induced by causing the patient to gaze steadily at a small bright object.
Originally the object used was a disc of zinc and copper, the galvanic action of which was supposed to be concerned in producing the result; hence perhaps the name, which however was employed by some writers as a synonym for ‘animal magnetism’ in general, with reference to its imagined relation to vital electricity.
1850W. Gregory Anim. Magn. 74 All the phenomena of the conscious state in..electro biology..can be produced..by the older mesmeric or magnetic..methods. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. ii. xiv. (1879) 550 Who styled themselves ‘professors’ of a new art which they termed Electro-Biology.
Hence eˌlectrobioˈlogical a. [see -ical], relating to electrobiology. eˌlectrobiˈologist [see -ist], a practiser of electrobiology.
1849Macaulay Jrnl. 13 May, I fought a mesmeric and electro-biological battle. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 109 The real combat was one of spirit against spirit..what would now be called electro-biological. 1860J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. about Doctors II. 38 Electro-biologists, spirit-rappers, and table-turners. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 220 This sage anticipated our modern electro-biologists. |