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vacciolation en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.
   • 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:
   • 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 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:
   • (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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