galvanism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun electricity produced by chemical action
noun the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)

From French galvanisme, after physiologist Luigi Alyisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -isme. By surface analysis, galvano- + -ism.

I laid great stress on the 3/8’s, and the galvanism, and took them on trust, ignorant as to their functions. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
An account appeared in a Unitarian paper of two remarkable cures of deafness by galvanism, and Harriet's friends persuaded her to try this new remedy. — Harriet Martineau, Florence Fenwick Miller
I will never have another.” Three days afterwards Lydgate was at his galvanism again in his Paris chambers, believing that illusions were at an end for him. — Middlemarch, George Eliot

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