Magnetism

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 27

The peculiar power po e ed by the loadstone or natural magnet, and, under certain conditions, by other mineral substances, to attract or repel other ma es. The science that treats of the nature and properties of magnets and the magnetic field. M., Animal, an empiric term for hypnotism. See Somnambulism and tism.