vacciolation

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noun

Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounvacciolation (countable and uncountable, plural vacciolations)

plural vacciolations

  1. countableuncountableInnoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.

    (see title)

    1804., Samuel Hill, Experiments proving Vacciolation, or Cow-pock Inoculation, to be a permanent Security against small-pox, with facts and remarks.
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    I presume the author means by 'after vaccination,' what I should express by after insertion of vacciolous matter, or after the attempt to vacciolate; and yet, when he mentions that zealots on one side have called the eruptions after it by one name, and those on the other by another; I am at a loss to comprehend him; because, if it were only after the attempt, the advocates of vacciolation would have no cause of surprize or disappointment in finding small-pox; the opponents no triumph.

    1804, The Medical and Physical Journal - Volume 12, page 334

    In the year 1801, a gentleman inoculated his own two boys and two of his servants with vacciolous matter, that was sent by Dr. Pearson; on the eighth, tenth, and twelfth days I Saw their arms, and was well satisfied that vacciolation had taken place.

    1804, Frederic Thackeray, “Letters to the Editor”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, page 331

    In 1802 he set up as a vaccinator at the house of a Friend, Joseph Fox, a dentist in Lombard Street, and shortly afterwards, chiefly through the interest of Friends, he was appointed resident inoculator to the Royal Jennerian Society, with a salary of £200 a year, coal and candles, and liberty to take fees for private " vacciolation".

    1895, Quakeriana - Volumes 2-3, page 6

Origin

Coined by Dr. John Walker in 1802 from vacciolate + -ion.

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