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tellurism|ˈtɛl(j)ʊərɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. tellūr-em the earth + -ism: in sense 1 = Ger. tellurismus, in sense 2 = F. tellurisme.]
1. A magnetic influence or principle supposed by some to pervade all nature and to produce the phenomena of animal magnetism; also the theory of animal magnetism based on this, propounded in 1822 by Kieser in Germany.
1843Hartshorn tr. Deleuze's Anim. Magn. x. 209 There are in magnetism two different actions. One which depends upon a vital principle spread throughout nature, and circulating in all bodies;..the first sort of magnetism, which he calls tellurism or siderism. 1849S. R. Maitland Illustr. Mesmerism 63 They [the Ancients] did not write systems of Animal Magnetism, or Tellurism, or Geisterkunde.
2. Influence of the soil in producing disease.
1890in Billings Nat. Med. Dict. 1899in Syd. Soc. Lex. |