rare. [f. Gr. στοιχεῖο-ν element + -LOGY. Orig. ad. the G. form stöchiologie.] The science of elements. a. In Oken’s use: see quot.
1847. A. Tulk, trans. Oken’s Elem. Physiophilos., 68. Stōchiology. Functions of the Elements.
1860. R. Fowler, Med. Vocab., Stœchiology, a treatise on, or the theory of, elementary substances.
b. Logic. (See quot.)
1837–8. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, v. (1860), I. 72. We proceed to the doctrines which make up the science itself, and commence the First Great Division of Pure Logic—that which treats of its elementary or constituent processes,—Stoicheiology. Ibid., xxiv. II. 3. In its Stoicheiology or Doctrine of Elements, Logic considers the conditions of possible thought.
c. Phys. The study of the principles of animal tissues; a system of therapeutics based on this.
1875. J. F. Churchill, Consumption, x. 385. My doctrine of stœchiology is diametrically opposed to this.
Hence Stoicheiological, stœchiological a.
1875. J. F. Churchill, Consumption, x. 384. Stœchiological medicine—Inhalants. Ibid., 391. This stœchiological doctrine … gives us a fundamental classification of diseases.
