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vacciolate en · VERB

Etymology

Coined in 1802 by Dr. John Walker, from vacciolous + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (archaic) To innoculate with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to produce immunity to smallpox.
   • May I offer to you my services, in this way : during the infancy of your institution, you cannot do me a greater pleasure than to increase my number of patients ; for, where I now vacciolate tens, I could easily do the same for hundreds. 1831, John Epps, The life of John Walker, M. D., page 77:
   • As the objects of attention had both been vacciolated at the Small-Pox Hospital, a correct copy of the particulars respecting their inoculation was obtained from the register of that Institution, and is given in the Report. 1804 December, M. Wigham, “Medical and Physical Intelligence”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, number 70, page 573:
   • Where I now vacciolate tens, I could easily do the same for hundreds. 1802, published in 1831, Dr. John Walker, in a letter of the 29th of december to the Jenerian Society quoted from The Life of John Walker (by John Epps), volume IV. 77:

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vacciolation

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