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Electro-Biology

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The science of electricity as it is connected with the phenomena of living beings. Also the effect of “animal magnetism” on living creatures, said to produce sleep, stupor, anesthēsia, etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Elbows
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Eleatic Philosophy
Elecampane and Amrida
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Electricity (from the Greek elektron, amber)
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Electro-Chemistry
Electuary
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Elegiacs
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