siderism
/S IH1 D ER0 IH0 Z AH0 M/noun
- 1
(medicine, historical) The supposed curative effects of metals upon the body, in metallotherapy; metallotherapy itself.
- 2
A former system of natural philosophy that posited relationships of inorganic phenomena to organic phenomena and studied pendulums, magnets, and dowsing rods; developed by Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776โ1810) and others.
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