etherismn.

1845 Biblical Repos. & Classical Rev. Apr. 387 That there are singular phenomena of mind not easily explicable on the ordinary and known laws of mind and matter we are ready to grant; but that these phenomena are attributable to magnetism or etherism we have yet to be convinced.

1847 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 67 512 In these operations, the etherism, as it may be called, fulfilled the object of enabling the patient to endure the necessary incisions, with much less apparent suffering, than where it was not used.

1880 Virginia Med. Monthly 3 134 In defining the stages of etherism, it is convenient to consider, 1st, the stage of excitement (increase of temperature), and 2d, the stage of collapse (decrease of temperature).

1896 Pharmaceut. Era 16 509/1 ‘The fiftieth Year of Etherism and Painless Surgery’ was the subject of an interesting paper read this week.

1887 W. F. Litch Amer. Syst. Dentistry III. 61 Chronic etherism, like chronic alcoholism, results in structural degeneracy of the digestive organs and permanent impairment of their functional power.

1888 N. Kerr Inebriety vii. 108 Etherism is the antipodes of opiumism.

1900 Dietetic & Hygienic Gaz. 16 719/2 Etherism resembles morphinism, but is a rarer disease and less grave.

1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Feb. 195/1 The articles upon etherism, morphinism, and cocainism, by the same writer, are open to the same criticism that too little definite information is given.

1938 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 53 202 Accidental absorption of poisonous gas. The approved subtitles and terms are..(b) Poisoning by other gases..Acute etherism.

1994 Internat. Statist. Classif. Dis. (ed. 10) III. 214/1 Etherism.