metallotherapy

American  

[muh-tal-oh-ther-uh-pee] / məˌtæl oʊˈθɛr ə pi /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. therapy by the use of metals or their salts.

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Etymology

Origin of metallotherapy

First recorded in 1875–80; metallo- + therapy

Example Sentences

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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)