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Meaning of stimulism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.
    obsolete, uncountable
  2. The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.
    obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“a different theory of therapeutics, that have⟳ introduced, instead of the somewhat overdone antiphlogistic measures of our predecessors, the expectancy with some, and the stimulism with others[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

stimulon Stimulus stimulus delta stimulus-response time stimy Stinchar

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