Edison's medicine

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Edison's medicine

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

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humorous, uncountable Electroconvulsive therapy. 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.

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@misc{edison_s_medicine_2026,
  title = {Edison's medicine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/edison's%20medicine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}