Med. [f. SOLID sb. + -ISM: cf. F. solidisme.] The doctrine or theory that refers all diseases to the state of, or to morbid changes in, the solid parts of the body.
1832. Edin. Rev., LV. 468. Sometimes Humorism, sometimes Solidism seems to be favoured.
a. 1862. Buckle, Civiliz. (1869), III. 419. Cullen … having built up that system of pathology which is known to medical writers as Solidism.
