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Galvanism

noun

Electricity produced by chemical action.

The therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis). Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy.

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"Galvanism" Quotes from Famous Books

... has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning! I said the small-pox has gone out of late; Perhaps it ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... native wilds, organized a sailing party for Labrador and invited Wasson to go with them. This was the first enterprise of the kind that gave him permanent benefit. Fortunately they encountered no severe storms. The cool, bracing air of the polar regions was better than galvanism and stimulated his nerves to work in the proper way. Sailing along the coast they were able to anchor almost every night in smooth water. The fish they caught, the strange birds they saw and stranger human creatures, were a cheerful ...

— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns

Words linked to "Galvanism" : therapy, electricity, electric healing, ECT, electroshock, galvanize, electroshock therapy, electrotherapy, galvanic, electrical healing, galvanise, electroconvulsive therapy