单词 | tellurism |
释义 | tellurismn. 1. An influence or principle thought of as pervading the natural world and responsible for the phenomena of animal magnetism; animal magnetism regarded as arising from this. Now historical.The concept was propounded by D. G. Kieser in Germany, in 1822. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > mesmerism animal magnetism1784 magnetism1784 mesmerism1784 magnetizing1787 magnetization1801 zoomagnetism1824 tellurism1832 hypnotism1842 pathetism1843 zoistic magnetism1849 electrobiology1850 electropsychology1850 biologism1852 statuvolism1871 statuvolence1873 braidism1882 hypnosis1882 biomagnetism1887 1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 8/2 ‘From the most remote periods’, says Kieser, in his System of Tellurism.., ‘indications are found of an art of discovering veins of ore.’ 1857 E. W. Robert tr. A. de Gasparin Sci. vs. Mod. Spiritualism II. iii. 331 The Germans have already taken the first step: the organic ether of the ones, the vital principle of the others, the tellurism, or the siderism of these, the universal fluid of those,..are all so many hypotheses. 1892 W. A. Smith ‘Shepherd’ Smith Universalist x. 130 We learn at this time..that he consequently was about to subject himself to tellurism or animal magnetism. 1900 J. Jastrow Fact & Fable Psychol. 202 In Germany appeared eccentric systems of ‘Tellurism’ and ‘Siderism’, and the occult was rampant. 2005 J. Lynn tr. R. Jütte Hist. Senses vi. 135 Dr Preu, who acted as an expert witness, drew on the theory of tellurism. 2. The (supposed) production of disease by miasma from the soil or by other local miasmatic sources; disease (supposedly) produced in this way, spec. malaria. Cf. paludism n. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > influence of soil tellurism1894 1894 G. M. Gould Illustr. Dict. Med. 1461/2 Tellurism, telluric miasm; influence of the soil as a cause of disease. 1898 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 10 Sept. 619/1 He considers the terms paludism, tellurism, malarial infection, etc., unscientific and suggests ‘Laveran's disease’ as the most appropriate term. 1899 G. W. Read tr. F. Burot & M. A. Legrand Hygiene Soldier in Tropics viii. 203 Tellurism has no respect for rank, and if the officers die as often as their men..it is because they go too often and stay too long in the bad conditions. 1910 Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1909 704 Finally, it was said that they [sc. fevers] came from the soil, whence the name tellurism,which was also applied to the disease. 1990 J. Låg Geomedicine xiii. 202 After the breakthrough of microbiology, tellurism was put aside because of the popularity of the infection theory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1832 |
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