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1889 Sanitarian 23 133 Buchner calls it a great triumph that it should be possible to immunize a living organism in this way without hurting its tissues.

1895 Public Health 7 259/1 Animals previously immunised by real cholera cultures.

1932 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 1931–2 29 456 We..succeeded in immunizing guinea pigs with formolized Rickettsia suspensions.

1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xiii. 160 In certain cases people may be immunized against an infection to which it is possible that they may be exposed, thus reducing their danger.

1994 Outdoor Canada Summer 22/3 An intensive vaccination program will immunize raccoons in the Niagara area so they can't act as carriers of the disease [sc. rabies].

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 313 Provided you have been immunized, the risk of contracting polio during your trip is almost non-existent.

1907 Science 3 May 699/2 Now that cultures of some of these organisms..are possible it was desirable to ascertain whether or not they could be used to immunize against the virulent organisms.

1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) viii. 108 It is possible to kill bacteria without so altering their antigenic structure that they no longer immunize against living bacteria.

1973 Nature 30 Mar. 330/1 The ability of lactating mammary gland to immunize against D1 and D2 mammary tumour growth.

1992 Nat. Hist. Jan. 6/1 Although antibiotics..and rapidly developed vaccines to immunize against the newly emerging strain might lower the death toll, I see nothing preventing another disaster like the 1918–19 pandemic.

1903 Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 5/3 Dr. Nikola Tesla..has procured two patents for processes immunising his system of etheric telegraphy from external interference.

1937 Jrnl. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Teachers of Insurance 4 40 Their expressed desire was to immunize the policy from automatic revalidation.

1965 Los Angeles Free Press 22 Jan. 2/1 To immunize the city of Los Angeles against further Disneyfication, Disneyland could be made a separate state.

1992 R. Rudolph Boys from New Jersey ii. xxxii. 302 Defendants started making new demands for ‘wrap-around pleas’ that would immunize them from any further prosecutions anywhere.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Oct. v. 2/3 McGruff challenges people to immunize their computers by installing anti-virus, firewall and other software.

1971 Jrnl. Business 44 417 The theorem implies that the way to immunize a portfolio to be held for, say, ten years is as follows. When the initial investment is made, purchase a portfolio whose duration is ten years.

1981 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 17 Feb. It has joined the growing number of trust departments offering to immunize a portfolio for any kind of institution that can project cash needs.

2003 M. P. Kritzman Portable Financial Analyst (ed. 2) vii. 55 We can immunize a portfolio from interest rate shifts by setting its duration equal to our holding period.