Edison's medicine

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Electroconvulsive therapy. humorous,uncountable
    — They used to call it "Edison's medicine" or, with a touch of gallows humor, a "Georgia Power cocktail" — the practice of hooking mentally troubled patients up to an electrical current and jolting them until they went into convulsions.

词源

After Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor who pioneered applications of electricity. Chosen for the near-rhyme.
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