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1789 Monthly Rev. 80 Appendix 569 The application of the principles of electrology to account for the formation of other meteors, is next considered.

1838 Edinb. Rev. 67 305 After arranging the physical sciences in the following order, Barology, Thermology, Acoustics, Optics, and Electrology, our author [sc. Comte] proceeds..to give a general view of each.

1845 N. Amer. Rev. July 22 To use the language of electrology, each atom acquired a new polarization.

1882 J. S. Mill Auguste Comte & Positivism 40 He [sc. Comte] attached little importance to their order, except that barology ought to come first, as the connecting link with astronomy, and electrology last, as the transition to chemistry.

1958 A. Pace Benjamin Franklin & Italy iii. 51 The application of the Galileo-Newtonian method to the infant science of electrology would be then the answer to the Cartesians.

1997 Isis 88 552/1 This was especially true in electrology during the second half of the nineteenth century.

1874 Arch. Electrol. & Neurol. 1 141 While the number of exclusive specialists in Electrology or Neurology is yet quite limited, the number of those who are specially interested in these themes is already quite large.

1900 Times 6 Feb. 10/1 At the request of the French society of electrotherapy and radiology, an international congress of medical electrology and radiology is to be held in connexion with the international congress of 1900.

1970 H. F. Ellenberger Discov. of Unconscious v. 269 At first glance it would seem that Benedikt had had a successful career: a pioneer in neurology, electrology, criminology, and psychiatry.

2006 Radiography 12 61/1 His enthusiasm for radiological education sustained the Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology.

1896 Daily News 13 Feb. 2/1 The newly-elected president [sc. Capt. Abney] avowed his preference for ‘electrology’ as against ‘photography’.

1932 M. Fishbein Fads & Quackery in Healing 307 In several states the new laws regulating the practice of cosmetology specifically exempt the other new profession of electrology so far as concerns the removal of superfluous hair, moles, warts, or excrescences from the skin.

1946 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 21 Apr. 14/4 (advt.) Superfluous hair permanently removed by electrology and thermology.

1997 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 26 Aug. d3 Removing the hair from a man's back might involve 200 hours or more of electrology and cost $12,000 or more.