Inoculation with smallpox.
a procedure, not used today, in which material from the pustule of an individual infected with smallpox (variola virus) was scratched into the skin of an infected person to induce immunity to the disease.
The practice of scratching into the skin (usually of children) some matter taken from a part of a person recovering from a mild infection with smallpox. If the amount used was just right this produced only a mild case of smallpox. Wrong treatments could kill or be ineffective. This was practiced by surgeons in Europe during the 18th in an attempt to give immunity to smallpox later in life.
the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
early form of immunization which involved the presentation of material collected from smallpox lesions to uninfected individuals with the goal of inducing immunity to future infection with smallpox.
To infect with a minute amount of the smallpox virus
The historical practice of inducing immunity against smallpox by "scratching" the skin with the purulency from smallpox skin pustules. The first inoculation for smallpox is said to have been done in China about 1022 B.C.
Early form of vaccination in which part of the lesions produced by smallpox were used to try and trigger immunity to the disease.