| 单词 | variolous matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvariolous matter variolous matter n. [after post-classical Latin materia variolosa (1660 or earlier)] now historical the fluid present in a vesicle or pustule of variola, esp. as used for variolation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [noun] > vaccine > of cowpox or smallpox variolous matter1676 vaccine lymph1799 lymph1800 vaccine1800 humanized lymph1839 pock-lymph1876 calf-lymph1884 1676 C. Goodall Colledge of Physicians Vindicated 177 The latter impeding or hindering the due expulsion of the variolous matter. 1701 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. (ed. 3) vi. 271 But the most profuse Eruption of the Pustles, as I conjecture, arises from too hasty an Accumulation of the variolous Matter. 1730 W. Douglass Pract. Ess. Conc. Smallpox 89 Perhaps it is more infecting than in the common Way, because after the Small Pox Confinement is over the inoculated Walk about, and carry with them a Sort of ambulatory Infection, their Incisions continuing to run a Sort of variolous Matter. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 22 I immediately inoculated the whole party with the most virulent variolous matter I could procure. 1926 Lancet 23 Jan. 191/1 The method in vogue in Palestine is to puncture the skin with a thorn through variolous matter spread on the surface. 2011 C. Tatz in S. Totten & R. K. Hitchcock Genocide Indigenous Peoples iv. 89 It is not feasible that the first fleet of soldiers and settlers, arriving in 1788..could conceive of extermination by deliberately inflicting ‘variolous matter’ on the native people. < as lemmas |
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