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stimulism

noun — 2 senses

stimulism

noun
1

Medicine, Sciences Obsolete The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.

2

Medicine, Sciences Obsolete The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.

  • a different theory of therapeutics, that have introduced, instead of the somewhat overdone antiphlogistic measures of our predecessors, the expectancy with some, and the stimulism with others[…]1879, Henry Hartshorne, A System of Medicine:

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