单词 | variolate |
释义 | variolatev. Medicine. Now historical. transitive. To inoculate with material from the pocks of variola (smallpox), esp. to prevent or protect against the disease. In early use also: †to change into variolous matter (obsolete).Frequently contrasted with vaccinate: see vaccinate v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > infect with eruptive disease [verb (transitive)] > infect with smallpox variolate1754 smallpox1864 smallpox1886 1754 J. Kirkpatrick Anal. Inoculation vi. 138 Nor so sensibly perverted in its Texture and Substance as Blood variolated into Pus. 1767 B. Chandler Ess. Inoculation 38 This is, the taking the infecting humour in a crude state, before it has been, if I may be allowed the expression, ultimately variolated by the succeeding fever. 1799 Monthly Rev. Aug. 416 A suspicion arose that the patients were variolated..by the variolous inoculation, which was performed on the 5th day after the insertion of the vaccine matter. 1810 Edinb. Rev. 15 329 The total number of those vaccinated..is perhaps not less than those variolated. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 24/2 The proof being to variolate the cow on the udder. 1912 C. E. Simon Introd. Study Infection & Immunity xii. 171 It was noticed, moreover, that, contrary to expectations, persons who had been variolated occasionally themselves became centres of infection. 1968 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 62 871 In the village of Lellehoi—population 897—120 people were variolated, none of whom had ever been vaccinated or variolated before. 2003 D. A. Koplow Smallpox i. 17 After observing the technique's effectiveness among the Turks and having her own two children successfully variolated, she [sc. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu] sponsored the concept at home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1754 |
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