† vacciolan.
Obsolete.
The disease resulting from inoculation with material derived from pocks of cowpox. Occasionally also: cowpox occurring naturally in cattle.
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pap pox1887
1800 J. Stokes Let. 17 Nov. in Med. & Physical Jrnl. (1801) 5 23 The discovery of the crustaceous Cow-pox, (or vacciola leprosa, as I propose to our Nosologists to have it styled, distinguishing the preservative against Small-pox by the appellation of vacciola scatellata,) will enable us to reconcile the contradictory accounts of the effects of the casual Cow-pox in securing the constitution against Small-pox.]
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 454 The incised part bore the characteristic marks of pure Vacciola.
1817 J. Thacher Amer. Mod. Pract. xiv. 374 Hence the disease obtained the name of kine or cow-pox, (vaccina, or vacciola).
1834 Lancet 10 May 231/1 These individuals exhibited examples of two distinct and perfect eruptions of vacciola.
1874 A. W. Chase Dr. Chase's Recipes (rev. ed.) 327 Vac ination [sic].—Is artificially inducing in the human body the disease known as cow-pox, professionally called vaccina or vacciola.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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