electrobiologyn.

1849 A. Smee (title) Elements of electro-biology, or the voltaic mechanism of Man.

1881 Nature 12 May 39/1 [The first number of L'Électricien contains] an interesting article on electrobiology.

1913 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 86 215 Neither the recent work on electrobiology by Bernstein, nor that on the hydrogen ion in biological processes by Sorensen, contains any reference to the measurements of ions in tissues during rest or activity.

1953 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 5 109/1 To distinguish between these two different kinds of potentials, noise and signal, is a common problem in many fields; in the field of electrobiology it is of particular importance.

1997 Bioelectrochem. & Bioenergetics 44 89/1 To study the relationships between the response and physiological characters of living cells, and to find biological applications of the relationships are the areas of continuing interests [sic] for electrobiology.

1850 W. Gregory Lett. Animal Magn. 74 All the phenomena of the conscious state in..electro biology..can be produced..by the older mesmeric or magnetic..methods.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Let. 27 June in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1963) 53 118/2 We have been considerably astonished by some of the phenomena exhibited by two Americans, Messrs. Darling and Stone, under the designation of Electro-Biology.

1853 Q. Rev. Sept. 504 ‘Electro-biology’, or ‘Biology’ (as it was commonly designated), now became a fashionable amusement, at evening parties.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) ii. xiv. 550 Who styled themselves ‘professors’ of a new art which they termed Electro-Biology.

1900 J. Jastrow Fact & Fable in Psychol. 220 ‘Electro-biology’ made its way into England, and there found a place among the endless forms of absurdity and pseudo-science then prevalent.

1996 Nineteenth Cent. Lit. 50 507 By the 1840s and early 1850s specialist and generalist periodicals were filled with one curious manifestation of the vitalism-materialism debate: mesmerism, also called electro-biology.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Jrnl. 13 May (MS) I fought a mesmeric and electro-biological battle.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 109 The real combat was one of spirit against spirit..what would now be called electro-biological.

1933 Science 7 July Suppl. 11/2 Professor Herrick ventured the prediction that ‘the electro-biological era now beginning will yield as revolutionary changes in our conceptions of the physiology of the nervous system as the invention of the microscope inaugurated in anatomy’.

1954 Science 23 July 152/1 In electrobiological work, it is often convenient to use two or more electrodes separated by a known, small distance.

2005 Behavioural Brain Res. 164 42/1 We showed that these episodes were marked by electrobiological rhythms in the 25-45 Hz frequency band in several distinct cortical zones.

1852 J. Braid Magic (ed. 3) 105 I am led to infer that my subjective or personal theory is..somewhat nearer the truth than the theories of the mesmerists and electro-biologists.

1879 J. Hands New Views Matter 338 The electrobiologist by projecting his vital animal magnetic fluid from his system can make certain sensitive or susceptible individuals perform any movements he pleases.

1969 PMLA 84 536/2 The so-called ‘electro-biologists,’..used the metaphor—which they took quite literally—of positive electric charges in the strong-willed operator and negative in the weak-willed subject.

1996 FT Energy Newslett. (Power Energy) (Nexis) 4 Oct. 24 Adopting the 100 Nanotesla (nT) limit recommended by certain electrobiologists would make Switzerland a ‘laughing stock’ in the rest of Europe.