Edison's medicine

== English == === Etymology === After Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor who pioneered applications of electricity. Chosen for the near-rhyme. === Noun === Edison's medicine (uncountable) (medicine, humorous) Electroconvulsive therapy. 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: 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.