metalloscopyn.

1878 Brain 1 337 Metalloscopy being the search for the metal which affects the patient, metallotherapy consists of employing the same for the treatment of disease, either by administering a solution of it internally, or by employing plates of it externally.

1879 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 24 609 M. Charcot has brought under the notice of the profession the clinical facts of hystero-epilepsy, hemianæsthesia, and allied phenomena,..and his good work will remain, whatever becomes of metalloscopy.

1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 749 Metalloscopy..is the art of determining by external application what metals or metallic substances act most easily and favorably upon a given person.

1988 Psychol. Med. 18 21 In 1876 a certain elderly physician and mesmerist, Victor Burq, asked the Parisian Societe de Biologie formally to establish the validity of his so-called ‘metallotherapy’ (later ‘metalloscopy’) treatment for hysteria.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 503 Metaloscopic phenomena are most analogous to those here described.

1988 Psychol. Med. 18 21 These early metalloscopy studies—and especially the discovery by Charcot and his colleagues of so-called metalloscopic ‘transfer’—opened the door to the rise of a neo-mesmeric, and increasingly occult, branch of hypnosis research in French psychiatry.