vacciolate
To innoculate with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to produce immunity to smallpox.
Verb
- To innoculate with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to produce immunity to smallpox.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Origin
Coined in 1802 by Dr. John Walker, from vacciolous + -ate (verb-forming suffix).