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1896 A. Jacobi Therapeutics of Infancy & Childhood xvi. 493 Those who know that diphtheria, once induced, predisposes rather than protects will have no particular confidence in the effect of antitoxin as an immunizer.

1927 Daily Express 18 June 9/2 ‘Immuniser’ for Cancer... It may well be that chemical and medical research will discover this natural immuniser, which will strengthen resistance to cancer in all individuals.

1950 G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables 90 Lying advertisements of panaceas, prophylactics, elixirs, immunizers, vaccines, antitoxins, vitamins, and professedly hygienic foods.

1993 Time 4 Jan. 57 (advt.) As a natural immunizer and food, breastmilk is the superior choice, both physically and economically.

2004 Drug Disc. Today 9 901/2 Intercell's strategy and focus centers around the..development of novel vaccines that combine antigens with immunizers (adjuvants) for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of diseases.

1904 Lancet 14 May 1383/1 The means adopted for prophylaxis should not be ‘death to the mosquito’ but preservation of these providential beings destined to act in the necessary cases as ‘immunisers’.

1909 Lancet 23 Oct. 1258/2 (heading) Every man his own immuniser.

1950 G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables 90 They are in fact exalting every laboratory vivisector and quack immunizer above Jesus and St. James.

1973 Times 8 Sept. 4/7 He declared himself more sceptical than Professor Piazza about mass vaccination... He wanted to avoid ‘a useless rush to the immunizer’.

2005 Vaccine 23 3524/1 It [sc. an absence of funding] may also deter immunizers from offering the vaccine.