"Edison's medicine" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "After Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor who pioneered applications of electricity. Chosen for the near-rhyme.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Medicine",
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        {
          "ref": "2011 March 19, Andrew Zajac, “FDA revisits risks of electric shock treatment”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2014-01-25:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2012 May 11, “The rise of electroshock therapy: A guide”, in The Week, retrieved 2014-01-25:",
          "text": "The use of electroshock as mind-erasing punishment was dramatized in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and that negative portrayal almost served as a death knell for a practice derided as \"Edison's medicine.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2013 August 5, David Thomson, \"Woody Allen makes a wonderful film. Really\" (film review of Blue Jasmine), New Republic, vol. 244, no. 12, p. 56",
          "text": "So this woman who has had Edison's medicine (electroshock treatment) and medication, and who has the good fortune to have such a \"sister\" as Ginger, has lost everything."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Electroconvulsive therapy."
      ],
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          "Electroconvulsive therapy",
          "electroconvulsive therapy"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine, humorous) Electroconvulsive therapy."
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  "word": "Edison's medicine"
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  "etymology_text": "After Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor who pioneered applications of electricity. Chosen for the near-rhyme.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2011 March 19, Andrew Zajac, “FDA revisits risks of electric shock treatment”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2014-01-25:",
          "text": "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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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 11, “The rise of electroshock therapy: A guide”, in The Week, retrieved 2014-01-25:",
          "text": "The use of electroshock as mind-erasing punishment was dramatized in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and that negative portrayal almost served as a death knell for a practice derided as \"Edison's medicine.\"",
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          "ref": "2013 August 5, David Thomson, \"Woody Allen makes a wonderful film. Really\" (film review of Blue Jasmine), New Republic, vol. 244, no. 12, p. 56",
          "text": "So this woman who has had Edison's medicine (electroshock treatment) and medication, and who has the good fortune to have such a \"sister\" as Ginger, has lost everything."
        }
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