Chemisms is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 154 anagrams from letters in chemisms (cehimmss).
1850-55; chem- + -ism, modeled on French chimisme, equivalent to chim(ie) chemistry + -isme -ism
If his chemism could only give him the mother-principle also!
For the rest, the phrase "sexual metabolism" or "chemism of sexuality" is a chapter-head without content.
There is no life without chemism, but there is chemism without life.
Without this, chemism and mechanism would work together to quite other ends.