Citations:stœchiology

Noun: scientific study of

 * 1858, E. R. Peaslee, in Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal, Riley & Co.; Volume 10, №. 5, part three, page #416:
 * Stœchiology embraces fifteen chemical elements entering into the structure of the human body—oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chlorine, fluorine, silicum, iron, magnesium.
 * 1875, John Francis Churchill, Consumption and Tuberculosis, Langmans, Green, And Co.; Chapter X, pages 393–394:
 * The doctrine of stœchiology involves not only a new classification of disease and a new conception of remedies, but a fundamental change in the method of the science itself.
 * 1879, Algernon T. B. de Bale, Exhausted Brain and Nervous Exhaustion; fourth edition, page vii:
 * Yet the figures of the old gods will remain upon their altars, and others, infinitely foolish, be added to their number, until medicine is re‐cast in the mould of stœchiology, and until matter be held subordinate to spirit.