See Also: pneumatists(medicine)

Wurlitzer (iou) and pneumatists (medicine)


Wurlitzer (iou)



Wurlitzer noun. E20.
[Rudolf Wurlitzer (1831-1914), German-born US instrument-maker.]
(Proprietary name for) a large pipe organ or electric organ, esp. one of a kind used widely in cinemas in the 1930s.

pneumatists (medicine)


pneumatists


The followers of the school whose physiology centreed around the pneuma and who conceived the causes of disease as disturbances of this vital principle.