metallotherapy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metallotherapy
Example Sentences
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It was a case of metallotherapy with extraction of the precious metal from the patient, as is always the case under such circumstances.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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