Word Meanings - VARIOLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inoculation with smallpox.

INOCULATION
The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. Note: The use was formerly limited to the intentional communication of the smallpox, but is now extended to include
SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
AUTO-INOCULATION
Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.