variolation
- a word derived from variolate.
Example Sentences
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General George Washington compelled troops to get a smallpox variolation, saying it was necessary to safeguard soldiers and to win the war.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 5, 2021
Even today, the exact mechanism is poorly understood and not much research on variolation has been done.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2021
Before then, doctors used inoculation, or variolation as it was often called, introducing a trace amount of the smallpox virus into the skin.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2021
It is possible, in fact, that the adoption of variolation may have temporarily increased life expectancies in those regions as well, but the lack of health records make this impossible to determine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2021
The old custom of variolation had not been discarded, and the experience of the Gloucestershire milkmaids had not crystalized into the form of vaccination to be handed down by Jenner.
From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred
