Definition of Variolation. Meaning of Variolation. Synonyms of Variolation

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Definition of Variolation

Variolation
Variolation Va`ri*o*la"tion, n. (Med.) Inoculation with smallpox.

Meaning of Variolation from wikipedia

- Variolation was the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals against smallpox (Variola) with material taken from a patient or a recently...
- as variolation, was first practiced in China in the 10th century. Methods of carrying out the procedure varied depending upon location. Variolation was...
- flourishing variolation practice, may have considered this option but used smallpox instead. He thought vaccination offered no advantage over variolation, but...
- Berkeley's School and in Cirencester. During this time, he was inoculated (by variolation) for smallpox, which had a lifelong effect upon his general health. At...
- inoculation was most likely smallpox, with the first recorded use of variolation occurring in the 16th century in China. It was also the first disease...
- natural infection. Until the early 1800s inoculation referred only to variolation (from the Latin word variola = smallpox), the predecessor to the smallpox...
- him. Onesimus introduced Mather to the principle and procedure of the variolation method of inoculation to prevent the disease, which laid the foundation...
- and two years later her mother helped to po****rise the practice of variolation (an early type of immunisation against smallpox), which had been witnessed...
- earliest recorded artificial induction of immunity in humans was by variolation or inoculation, which is the controlled infection of a subject with a...
- inoculation (then called variolation) to prevent smallpox, arranged for seven prisoners who had been sentenced to death to undergo variolation in exchange for...