Sentence:  With his death, not only the odic theory but the whole conception of animal magnetism would appear to have been buried and forgotten, the only references, as this one from Garrison's "History of Medicine", being of a disparaging nature: ‘The whole subject was exploited in various mystic forms ... by Baron von Reichenbach, whose concept of <WSD>odic</WSD> force still survives in ouija boards and <WSD>odic</WSD> telephones.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or pertaining to od (alleged natural force).